The Audubon Community Nature Center’s next monthly First Sunday Storytime is March 5, from 12:30 to 1 p.m. Children’s books are tools to connect children to nature and establish a strong foundation for their educational journey. Led by ACNC storyteller Claire Certo, children go on ...

I’m not sure if you’ve ever boiled maple sap down into syrup, but the process takes a while. At least it does in the old school way we do it (buckets, no reverse osmosis, wood fire). Depending on the amount of sap, anywhere from three-and-a-half hours to six hours are spent in our little ...

Learn about the fisheries of Chautauqua County at Audubon Community Nature Center’s First Friday, March 3, at 11 a.m. Taylor West, an avid multi-species fisherman and project manager for the Chautauqua Lake and Watershed Management Alliance, will present “Chautauqua County, an Angler’s ...

Audubon Community Nature Center executive director Jamestown Audubon Society was formed in 1957 by a small group of people who were passionate about birds. Since then, we have grown to become our own 501c3 non-profit organization, which includes a staff of eleven people, close to 600 acres of ...

Dogs, like children, notice things that I don’t. One of the joys of teaching has always been the excitement of discovery that a child has when they find something new. They are shorter and have fewer ideas of what they will see, so they find things that adults miss. I was surprised to enjoy ...

In a hole in a tree, there lived a bird. It was not a dusty, cramped beetle hole, filled with sawdust and bug bits, nor was it a large, windy, woodpecker hole exposed to the elements: it was a bluebird hole, and that means comfort. This Tolkien-inspired thought struck me today as I was taking ...