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 ...
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 ...
The snow in southern Chautauqua County has been sparse so far this winter. The temperatures feel equally as topsy-turvy, going from warm spring-like days to below freezing in short periods of time. Even though the snow has not stuck around for very long, the occasional freezes mean that ice is ...
Let’s take a tour of my desk at work! You’re thinking, “this is a strange topic and sounds boring.” Perhaps! You’ll have to read on to find out. But it was my turn to write the article and I forgot, and this is what my brain can do today. As a preface, I’ve worked at Audubon for a ...
Join an Audubon educator to learn all about owls at Audubon Community Nature Center’s newest monthly program, Natural Investigators. Adults and 8 to 12-year-old(s) can learn about owls from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 28. Owls are rarely seen during the day and often are only heard at ...
