The annual Big Sit is a combination of two things I love: birding and sitting down. The idea is to count as many birds as possible in a …
Maine's Naturalist
Nature Moments: One Year Later, Nature Moments Calls it a Day
After twelve months, the weekly Nature Moments video series is wrapping up. In this final installment, Bowdoin professor and Maine Audubon …
Trip Report: 50th Anniversary of the Bald Eagles of Merrymeeting Bay
One morning in 1969, Maine Audubon and friends motored up the Kennebec River to Swan Island in hopes of seeing a Bald Eagle. A sighting was …
“How Long Should I Keep My Hummingbird Feeders Up?” – Answers To All Your Fall Hummingbird Questions
Watching hummingbirds zip around a garden or gracefully sip from a hanging feeder are enduring pleasures of a Maine summer. But as the …
Join us on Monday: Tom Fleischner on “Why Natural History Matters”
I'm very excited about this special event we are hosting at Gilsland Farm on Monday evening: Why Natural History Matters: Saving the …
2018 Bar Harbor Pelagic Trip Report
On Saturday, September 15, we ran our annual pelagic trip out of Bar Harbor. The weather and sea conditions in the Gulf of Maine during the …
Nature Moments: The Sound of Extinction
Whip-poor-wills, swallows and other birds that feed on flying insects are rapidly disappearing throughout the northeast. The same is true of …
Nature Moments: Parade of Frogs
How can so many frog species co-exist in the same pond without competing for food or accidentally mating with the wrong species? One …
Nature Moments: The Buzz About Bees
Bumblebees have tiny brains but extraordinarily sophisticated behavior. If you follow a bee as it forages for pollen and nectar, you're …
Nature Moments: Herbivory in Moderation
Those holes, rips, folds and tubes that you find in leaves? They're mainly the work of larval beetles, moths, flies, sawflies and other …