by auduboncnc | Sep 22, 2022 | Fall, Nature News
By Jeff Tome Nature is one of my favorite things to eat. I fully realize that that sounds a little bit like I want to sit on the sidewalk and eat mud pies with a side of grass and worms, but I don’t. We sometimes forget that all of our food comes from the earth. Even...
by auduboncnc | Aug 3, 2022 | Nature News, Summer
By Jeff Tome It is not really news that Monarch butterflies are in trouble. Their numbers have been dropping steadily for the last twenty or more years. Last week, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature put the Monarch on their red list of species that...
by auduboncnc | Jul 29, 2022 | Nature News, Summer
By Jeff Tome Shoes and I have a complicated relationship. I love them in the cold months when they protect me from the cold ground and snow, but cannot wait to be barefoot in the summertime. Shoes are the first thing that come off when I come home in the afternoon and...
by auduboncnc | Jun 27, 2022 | Nature News, Summer
By Jeff Tome The birds have taken over the porch, not through dive bombing us or whitewashing the deck, but by the sheer force of their presence. It all started with a fern in a hanging basket that my wife got for Mother’s Day. Soon after, the House Finches started to...
by auduboncnc | Jun 3, 2022 | Event
By Jeff Tome The usual happy babble of preschool voices echoed across Audubon as a group of children and their parents came on a field trip. I happened to be outside doing something else as they walked up to see Audubon’s resident Bald Eagle, Liberty. For a moment,...
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