Audubon just wrapped up our last weekend of Audubon Lights, where colorful lights and scenes illuminated one of the trails so people can head out after dusk. My favorite statement and the one I heard more than any other by people on the trail that Sunday night was something along the lines of ...
There is a general agreement in my house. I cook dinner and my husband cleans up. Recently, I felt like I was doing most of the work, while he had the easy job. A switch in roles one night gave me the opportunity to reflect on the value of clean-up work. It is not always the most glamorous ...
Do you ever have one of those moments when you notice something out of the corner of your eye that doesn’t look quite right, so you glance over to see what is going on? That happened to me last weekend as I set up for Audubon Lights at Audubon. There was a log floating in the pond where ...
In our Northwestern Pennsylvania summers many gardeners provide bird baths in their gardens. The bath needs to be cleaned regularly and filled with fresh shallow water. Likewise butterflies need a butterfly bath. These also need to be kept clean and filled with an appropriate amount of ...
When I go into classrooms as an Audubon Nature Educator, I get all sorts of questions from the students. They want to know what my favorite animals are, or stories from nature, and sometimes the questions are even relevant to the lesson I’m teaching (sometimes). But, the most common question ...
You can find birds living just about anywhere if you stop to look around for a bit, but in most cases the actual breakdown of species is going to look different in an urban area than it is in a nature preserve, rural area, or even a park and green space with forest or field habitats. There are ...
