Mass Audubon Blogs

June 18–24 is National Pollinator Week and we’re celebrating these wonderful and critical creatures that provide a much needed and under-appreciated service to us and to the natural world. The vast majority of flowering plants on earth need help from pollinators to reproduce; we need pollinators for our food supply and to support healthy ecosystems. […]

Enjoy a weekend paddle, celebrate Father’s Day, look for fireflies, pick strawberries, go on a scavenger hunt, and more at a wildlife sanctuary this weekend. Cape Cod Go In Search of Horseshoe Crabs and Shorebirds at Wellfleet Bay to learn about the connection between the two and the sanctuary’s research on horseshoe crab populations. (adults, […]

US Representatives are considering a bill that would fine states that oppose oil and gas drilling off their coasts. The draft proposal would allow a state to reject offshore drilling in up to half of the leased areas off its coast, but withholding any additional areas beyond that from proposed sales would result in a fee. […]

Where did this Scarlet Tanager spend the winter? A birder might correctly say “South America,” but where specifically? How can we know the country, the province, the latitude and longitude? In fact, chemical signatures in feathers, blood, and muscle tissue tell the story of where a bird has been, and what it’s been eating. Over […]

The Museum of American Bird Art and Mass Audubon has partnered with UNC Chapel Hill to participate in a Citizen Science Project called the Caterpillars Count. Caterpillars Count! is a citizen science project the measures seasonal variation (phenology) and abundance of important food sources for birds, primarily arthropods like caterpillars, beetles, and spiders found on the […]

2018 is gearing up to be the best summer ever! We are excited to announce new programmatic additions to Assabet River Camp that continue to make it a special and unique place for new and returning campers to explore nature, and learn survival skills they can use for life! All of our camps are now […]

Having banded birds for 10 years in locations around the world, wildlife biologist James Junda has concluded that there’s only one reliable factor for forecasting whether a day will bring in a lot of spring migrants on Cape Cod: a southwest wind. Better yet– several days of southwest winds. “It’s not about temperature and it […]

In David Moon’s absence (coleading a birding trip with Bill Gette to Nome, Alaska—yeah, tough job, but somebody has to do it!), Susan Yurkus joined me for Wednesday Morning Birding. We decided on a change of pace and visited Amesbury’s Woodsom Farm for a leisurely stroll through its grasslands. It was a beautiful morning—clear to […]

Here is what we have for pick-up this week: Strawberries Peas Garlic Scapes Green Onions Lettuce Radishes Swiss Chard We also still have some native plants available for purchase as well as one variety of Honey (farm field 1lb. $12) and our Moose Hill CSA Cookbooks ($5). We accept cash, card, or check. If you […]

Last Sunday was Broadmoor’s 41st annual Birds and Breakfast.  Birding walks from 7 – 10 am were followed by a pancake breakfast in the pavilion featuring maple syrup from our trees tapped by the Natick Community Organic Farm. Over 41 years 130 species of birds have been seen.  This year, we added a new one […]

From June 11–13, summer camp staff from Mass Audubon Camps across the state gathered at Wildwood for Field School, a fun, hands-on, 3-day training program designed to kick off the summer and get staff ready for camp. Camps from every corner of Massachusetts were there, from Pleasant Valley in the Berkshires to Wellfleet Bay on […]