• Field Trip: Pine Point & Environs

    Scarborough Marsh Eastern Road

    All are welcome! You don’t need to be an Audubon member or have advanced birding skills to join us. We simply hope to instill interest in the natural world through […]

  • Tracking Wildlife in Maine

    Kirk Gentalen is the regional stewardship manager for mid-coast Maine for Maine Coast Heritage Trust and writes about the ecology of the area in his Nature Bummin’ blog. A self-described […]

  • Welcome to the Pyrocene

    Ecological Implications for a Planet on Fire - Pyrocene is a term used to describe the human use of fire and how it impacts our planet. The term was first […]

  • All About Screech Owls

    Screech owls are the owl most likely to nest in a backyard, but few people know how to entice them to move in—or how to thwart those pesky squirrel interlopers. Jim Wright, author of The Screech Owl Companion, from Timber Press, will tell all.  Jim thinks the photos alone are worth the price of this […]

  • Field Trip: Damariscotta Mills

    Damariscotta Mills 384 Mills Road, Damariscotta Mills, ME, United States

    Join us for a late winter/early spring birding field trip in the Damariscotta Mills area. We will check the pools above and below the famous fish ladder and also look out over Great Salt Bay. Expect to see a good representation of our overwintering ducks including: Hooded, Common and Red-breasted Mergansers, Common Goldeneye, and Bufflehead. […]

  • Field Trip: Salt Bay Farm, Damariscotta

    Salt Bay Farm 110 Belvedere Rd., Damariscotta, United States

    Join us as we seek early migrants at the Salt Bay Farm in Damariscotta, co-hosted by Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust. We'll walk the meadow looking for Savannah and other sparrows, scan the pond for ducks and geese, investigate the forest edges for early migrating warblers and songbirds, and then scan the Great Salt Bay for […]

  • Journeys in Listening: Birds and More from Acadia and Beyond

    **New Date** Join us for a journey in listening to wildlife audio recordings from Acadia and beyond, and the stories of adventure and discovery behind them. Laura Sebastianelli is a naturalist with a passion for listening and sound recording. In 2017, she established "Schoodic Notes: Bird Sounds of Acadia," a collaborative project with Schoodic Institute's […]

  • Field Trip: Cloudmarch Salt Marsh, Newcastle

    Join us for a unique opportunity to visit a remarkable salt marsh that is inaccessible to the public! We will primarily focus on observing Saltmarsh and Nelson’s Sparrows, both of which regularly breed on this marsh. However, due to the variety of habitats that we will cover, we expect to find a wide assortment of […]

  • Field Trip: Whale Watch & Puffin Pelagic

    Is that a buoy? Maybe a piece of flotsam? No, it’s a Yellow-nosed Albatross! You never quite know what you’re going to find in the open ocean. Join trip leaders Mael Glon and Jeff Cherry as we embark with Cap’n Fish’s Cruises in search of puffins, shearwaters, storm-petrels, and maybe even an albatross! Join us […]