Mass Audubon Blogs

This week, we’re taking a look at things from a different perspective…upside-down! In-flight or on foot, these birds are turning things around with either their flexibility or aerial acrobatics on display. Enjoy these five photos from past submissions to our annual Picture This: Your Great Outdoors photo contest (now closed for 2019), but don’t crane […]

Enjoy the foliage, take a photography workshop, go birding, be a citizen scientist, attend a fall festival, learn about saw-whet owl banding, and more at a wildlife sanctuary this weekend. Greater Boston Start the weekend off with a Fall Foliage Paddle down the Charles River with Broadmoor in Natick. Relax and watch for the many […]

Pledge to Help Green Transportation In recent years, the transportation sector has surpassed power plants as the largest source of carbon dioxide emissions in the US. Learn more about this shift and how you can help curb emissions. Climate Central Our climate change program manager participated in a Project Drawdown conference this weekend, an opportunity […]

Fall holidays mean family gatherings – for people and for Blue Jays. Much like people, these highly social birds are more active in the fall, when the harvest is good and families are reuniting. This pattern is borne out by data on eBird, when observers’ Autumn checklists show a spike in sightings. Here are a few explanations for jays’ noisy behavior right now.  Predators on the move mean […]

Mass Audubon and the City of Northampton worked in partnership to add one and a half acres to the conserved land known as the Rocky Hill Greenway and approximately four acres to Arcadia Wildlife Sanctuary (see map below). The Greenway is an active wildlife corridor that has been the focus of protection efforts by the conservation […]

The most beautiful season at Broadmoor features amazing scenes around every turn in the trail. The colors of maples, berries on American holly and ferns turning golden are vibrant around the wetlands Trail improvements will make your visit be even more enjoyable, focused on nature and less on rocks and roots in your path. The […]

You can now charge your car at your next visit to Drumlin Farm with one of our new electric vehicle charging stations. As part of an ongoing statewide initiative at Mass Audubon to decrease carbon emissions and increase access to greener transportation options for our communities, Drumlin Farm, PowerOptions, and Eversource, collaborated on the new […]

On Wednesday, October 16, Dave Weaver and I hosted a group of our regular birders for this week’s visit to Plum Island. As we passed the Main Panne, we were arrested by the sight of a dozen Great Egrets foraging together in the south end of the pool. They were surrounded by Greater Yellowlegs, which […]

Opening Reception for Exhibition of Tony King’s Photography at Museum of American Bird Art on September 28 On Saturday, September 28, 1-5pm, there will be an opening reception for the new exhibition, The Peace of Wild Things: Herons and Egrets Through the Lens of B. A. (Tony) King. Admission is free, and light refreshments will […]

Box turtle volunteer and researcher Tim O’Brien shares some of his field observations from the past summer. For the last several years I’ve been tracking some of the sanctuary’s eastern box turtles. The turtles have radio tags attached to their top shells which allow me to locate them with a radio receiver and record their […]

It’s been two months since we wrapped up camp for the summer (say WHAT???) and even though fall is beautiful at Wildwood, it can get awfully quite around camp in the off-season, making us feel nostalgic for the warm, laughter-filled days of summer. We’re guessing maybe you’re missing it, too, so here’s a look back […]