Mass Audubon Blogs

Look for wildflowers, go birding, practice yoga, learn how to draw, kayak under a full moon, and more at a wildlife sanctuary this weekend. Berkshires Go on a Spring Wildflower Walk at Pleasant Valley in Lenox. Learn to use guides to look up plants we discover along the way. Bring curiosity and a magnifying lens […]

It’s springtime and nature is abuzz with activity—literally, in the case of bees! With more than 370 species of bees living in Massachusetts, there’s plenty for a budding entomologist to discover. While the more familiar bumblebees and European honeybees are social, up to 85% of bees are solitary and do not form colonies, preferring to […]

Ask Your State Senator to Support Trailside Funding Mass Audubon’s Blue Hills Trailside Museum is the interpretive center for the state-owned Blue Hills Reservation, and is home to programs like the Snowy Owl Project. Help make sure Trailside gets the state budget funding it needs. Climate Central A curated selection of climate news from Mass […]

Budding bird enthusiasts love our summer camps, many of which offer special bird-themed sessions. Check out the following opportunities for kids and teens to learn about birds this summer! Connecticut River Valley Raptor Camp (ages 12–16) June 24–28 Ÿ Arcadia Wildlife Sanctuary, Easthampton & Northampton Set out to discover birds by foot and canoe at […]

Birds and Breakfast, Sunday, May 5 started overcast and damp, but everyone enjoyed a great show of early birds followed by pancakes with maple syrup from the Natick Community Organic Farm. Lists of species seen have been kept on the second or third Sunday of May every year for 42 years. The total seen during […]

After a long winter, it’s time to get back in the field, with thousands of plantings and a few new additions! Amazingly, April brought us 6.5 inches of rain, falling over 20 of its 30 cloudy days, with an average temperature of 52 degrees. It’s been challenging just moving around the sodden fields and working […]

This Wednesday arrived right in the middle of May, and therefore expectations were high for plenty of neotropical migrants. But we have been expecting the warmth and glory of spring all season, while suffering cold and wet instead. This week was no exception (thank goodness Bird-a-thon day was – The Joppa team found 174 species!). […]

Although it remains mysterious to science how nature calms and restores our brain, it never ceases to amaze me how a brief respite walking through a garden to watch seedlings emerge after a long winter or sauntering through a woodland and hearing the songbirds sing for the first time in many months revitalizes the spirit. […]

Congratulations to our Camp Director, Shawn, on his appointment to the American Camp Association New England board! And now a message from Shawn as you continue your plans for a summer of fun and learning! It is now May, and summer camp is right around the corner. Only 6 weeks until camp begins on June […]

Wellfleet Bay’s bird banding operation hit a modest milestone last September, marking its fifth fall migration since it set up shop in fall of 2014. We realize that for bird monitoring 5 years is still very much a blink of an eye compared, say, to a period of 30 years. But in that relatively short […]

Are you sending your little one to overnight camp for the first time? Great, you and your child are both feeling excited, and nervous all at the same time. Here are a few tips that will make this first time experience a little bit easier for you and your camper. Practice– Before your camper comes […]