Mass Audubon Blogs

Explore beach wildlife, paint wildflowers, investigate insects, paddle at sunset, gaze at the stars, participate in a duck derby, and more at a wildlife sanctuary this weekend. Cape Cod and Islands This one-hour program at State Beach, run by a Felix Neck naturalist, explores a different aspect of Sengekontacket Pond each week. Saturdays at Sengekontacket […]

Over the course of the 2018 Photo Contest, we will be highlighting 5 photos from the previous month’s entries on Facebook and asking fans to select their favorite. This is just a fun way of sharing some of the amazing entries and doesn’t have to do with the official judging process. You can pick your favorite by “liking” it on Facebook. Not […]

by Daniel Brown The Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, one of the foremost research groups studying public perceptions of climate change, recently released an updated version of their famed climate opinion maps. These maps show how fundamental understanding of climate change differs across the country, and the newest edition raises many interesting findings. Here […]

References to Bobolinks abound in poetry from 19th-century New England. Massachusetts authors drew inspiration from local birds for a host of reasons, not least because they saw local species as uniquely American subjects (as opposed to, say, the European Nightingale). Bobolinks and Meadowlarks helped distinguish their work from other English-language poets’, and perhaps more importantly, ground […]

Big news – yesterday, we completed the second and final phase of protecting the 610-acre former Tidmarsh Farms property in Plymouth! Mass Audubon acquired a permanent Conservation Restriction (CR) to ensure the perpetual conservation of “Tidmarsh West” – 129 acres of land located on the west side of Beaver Dam Road, across from the 481 […]

On July 12, we have a Peregrine Falcon and amazing naturalist Perry Ellis from the Blue Hills Trailside Museum visit our summer camp. Enjoy these two videos of this amazing day. https://photos.smugmug.com/Camp/Wild-at-Art-Summer-Camp-Museum/Wild-at-Art-Summer-2018/Week-3/Photos/Camp-Videos/i-qbtF48j/0/4ade616f/1280/IMG_2384-1280.mp4   https://photos.smugmug.com/Camp/Wild-at-Art-Summer-Camp-Museum/Wild-at-Art-Summer-2018/Week-3/Photos/Camp-Videos/i-8DNRhZz/0/08bf2b79/1280/IMG_2383-1280.mp4

Drumlin Farm is a lively and active place, filled with big and small jobs throughout the farm completed by staff, program participants, and volunteers. As a nonprofit, we rely heavily on the generosity of local volunteers who donate time, and funds, to maintain our crops, care for our animals, handle operational tasks, and more. Last […]

First–the good news! Thanks to the efforts of over 100 dedicated volunteers the 2018 terrapin nesting season has come to a close with our lowest number of depredated nests at this point in the season. This year we protected a total of 335 terrapin nests in Wellfleet, Eastham, and Orleans. At WBWS we found a […]

This Wednesday, with the tide low, Dave Weaver and I took our big group down the street toward town to get a closer view of the flats. There were hundreds or perhaps thousands of birds, mostly the semipalmated ones, strewn far out on the mud. As is often the case, a group of Black-bellied Plovers […]

A friendly reminder to those shareholders who are participating in “Buy a bucket”: Please be aware that the orange buckets that are given to fill up are not to take home. We suggest that you bring an extra bag to transfer your food in to after picking. If for some reason you want to take […]

The garden of native plants in and around our nature play area is in full bloom. Children including our summer campers are enjoying jumping on rocks, climbing on logs and watching pollinators like bees and butterflies drinking nectar from the flowers. Rudbeckia, with yellow flowers and lavender bee balm are popular with bees. Bee balm […]

Hello Everyone! We are enjoying a beautiful day here at camp. We’ve finely found ourselves in the sweet spot with weather, dry and not too hot. Camp here is going really well. It is surreal to think that tomorrow will be the last full day of overnight camp for 2018. We’ve had a busy week […]