A Nature Year at Wellfleet Bay

Spend a year getting to know the Outer Cape through every season.

Once a month, you'll meet a Mass Audubon naturalist at Wellfleet Bay to dig into a single subject: mammal tracking in January, winter tree identification in February, and courting woodcocks in March. From there the year continues through amphibian migration, spring bird migration, beach nesting birds, fireflies, butterflies, southbound shorebirds, fall color, waterfowl, and owls.

Returning to the same salt marsh, pine woods, and shoreline through all twelve months provides the opportunity to notice what changes and what holds steady. A year from now you'll read this landscape with new eyes and understand why coastal land like this is worth protecting.