Mass Audubon Blogs

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 […]

Celebrate butterflies, go on nature walks, watch for shooting stars, enjoy a paddle, practice outdoor yoga, and more at a wildlife sanctuary this weekend. Greater Boston Go on a Summer Morning Canoe on the Charles with Broadmoor in Natick. Listen to bird songs and watch for great blue herons, turtles and dragonflies as we paddle […]

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 […]

Aerobats. Daredevils. Show-offs. The bounding, athletic flight the Common Nighthawk makes for an impressive spectacle in late summer twilight, when groups of these birds swoop to catch insects in midflight. In the last two weeks of August into early September, these birds power across Massachusetts on hooked, falconlike wings. Nighthawks pause during migration to gather […]

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 […]

Shorebirds continued to be the dominant feature of our outing this week, as Dave Weaver and I led a group of 18 or so birding on Plum Island. We made a quick first stop at parking lot #1 to see the Purple Martin colony, which was bursting with young martins. They were hanging around on the power lines near the gatehouse and flying […]

As the harvest on the farm continues to increase, we often receive a number of questions about what happens with all the crops that we are growing. We wanted to be sure that our shareholders are aware of the many things that this farm is doing with the harvest. The Share Bin Unlike a farm […]

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 […]

Wow! What a day it has been for Wildwood. This morning the girls in Fossey and Carson woke up at their campsites at First and Second Point, while the Abbey/Dillard campers were waking up at Monadnock as they prepared to hike the mountain. Thoreau and Leopold campers woke up in their own beds this morning […]