Make Earth Day Every Day in your Yard: Gardening for Pollinators and Wildlife Friday, April 22: 7-8:15pm Cost: Free Registration Link Join Speaker Vicki J. Brown for a celebration on Earth Day! Vicki is a marketer, naturalist, NH Natural Resources Steward, co-founder of Pollinator Pathways NH, and Speaking for Wildlife volunteer. Her presentation will share […]
On April 23, 2022 NH Audubon Massabesic Center is having their Earth Day celebration! We will celebrate planet Earth with a variety of family-friendly activities, while also learning how to conserve wildlife and natural resources. Activities include guided nature walks, bluebird nest-box building, animal ambassador presentations, master gardener demonstrations, children’s story time, and crafts. New […]
Pollinator Series: Wednesday, April 27: 7pm – 8:15pm Registration Link Join Anusha Shankar, a Rose Postdoctoral Fellow at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and a National Geographic Explorer and Young Leader who has been studying hummingbirds and their amazing adaptations. Hummingbirds live fast. They have among the highest metabolic rates of all vertebrates, and must […]
Native Plants and the Pollinators they Attract Thursday, May 19: 7-8:15pm Cost: Free 🐛 ---> Register Here! Pollinators have evolved with native plants, and most pollinators feed on specific plant species. Hummingbirds tend to favor long, tubular flowers, while short-tongued bees prefer more open-faced flowers. Learn how you can attract and support a maximum diversity […]
NH Butterfly Monitoring Network: How you can make important contributions. Friday, June 2: 7-8:15pm Cost: Free Registration Link We are looking for curious and observant people to help us with a new initiative, the NH Butterfly Monitoring Network! There are over 100 species of butterflies in the state and we need help collecting data on […]
Beginner Botany is our first Buds & Blooms program. From the air we breathe to the clothes we wear, our relationship with plants far exceeds consumption. Let’s investigate the many ways we interact with our botanical buddies while exploring the McLane Center's Pollinator Garden. We'll learn how it is that plants create their own food […]
Join us for the McLane Center Native Plant Sale. Bagley Pond Perennials will be at the center with a wide selection of native plants and shrubs for purchase. Bagley Pond is a native perennial farm that follows organic practices. Their goal is to provide home gardeners with pollinator safe, native plants and shrubs to support […]
Learn how to use iNaturalist in preparation for our first Pollinator BioBlitz at the NH Audubon McLane Center! Thursday, June 16: 7-8:15pm Cost: Free Registration Link A BioBlitz is a community science effort where volunteers help find and record data on as many different species within a designated location and time period. New Hampshire Audubon […]
The Secret Life of Wild Bees Thursday, June 23: 7-8:15pm Cost: Free Registration Link Nick Dorian is an ecologist, an educator, and a naturalist. He is a PhD student at Tufts University where he studies the population ecology of cellophane bees and runs the Tufts Pollinator Initiative, an urban pollinator conservation and community outreach group. […]
Saturday, June 25th from 9:30am-2:30pm Join us for a BioBlitz in the New Hampshire Audubon McLane Center pollinator habitat! We are looking to engage others to help us learn more about all that is living in our pollinator habitat. A BioBlitz is a community science effort where volunteers help find and record data on as […]
