Sunday, May 29th, 3 – 4 pm Cost: $5 for members, $6 for non-members (free to those attending Pelagic Trip on May 31) Leader: Jon Woolf Watch an educational slideshow about some of the wildlife you might see just off NH’s coast. We’ll teach you how to identify some of our common pelagic birds as […]
Calling upon each artist’s distinct “Spirit of the Maker”, the Nature Interpreted exhibition at New Hampshire Audubon’s Massabesic Center showcases the unique methods and techniques of three League of NH Craftsmen juried members. Participants include photographer Alicia Bergeron, intaglio printmaker J. Ann Eldridge and serigraphic printmaker William Mitchell. The exhibition opens with a reception on […]
Location: Rye Harbor, NH Monday, May 30, 8 am – 5 pm Cost: $75 Member / $95 Non-Member Join NH Audubon aboard MV Granite State as we explore Jeffreys Ledge, 20 miles off the New Hampshire coast. We'll spend all day at sea, searching for pelagic seabirds, whales, dolphins, and anything else that happens to cross […]
Nighthawks were once common in cities throughout New Hampshire, where they nested on gravel roofs and fed on insects attracted to city lights. In recent years, these acrobatic birds have disappeared from many New Hampshire towns, but they still nest in Keene, Concord, and a handful of other places in the Granite State. Help keep […]
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 […]
Join NH Audubon for a birding walk along the trails at Massabesic Center (MAC) in Auburn. This is an hour-long, informal birding walk that begins at MAC and explores the trails with Slater, Massabesic Center’s Education Coordinator. All ages and skill levels of birders are welcome. If you are new to birding, come and learn […]
McLane Center is pleased to announce a new art exhibit on display by artist Ingeborg Seaboyer. The display will be up for public view from June 3-29 in Concord during regular center hours Tuesdays-Fridays from 11am-4pm. From the Ground Up – A Forester’s View Ingeborg Seaboyer is a lifelong resident of Derry, New Hampshire. Her […]
Join NH Audubon for a birding walk along the trails at Massabesic Center (MAC) in Auburn. This is an hour-long, informal birding walk that begins at MAC and explores the trails with Slater, Massabesic Center’s Education Coordinator. All ages and skill levels of birders are welcome. If you are new to birding, come and learn […]
Join the Nature Groupie team for the last session in our New Hampshire Audubon Invasive Champion trainings, this one focused on how to report invasive plants to EDDMaps. EDDMaps is a free website and app our state uses for reporting invasive plants. Participants will be walked through how to report plants through the app, how invasive plant […]
McLane Center is pleased to announce a new art exhibit on display by artist Ingeborg Seaboyer. The display will be up for public view from June 3-29 in Concord during regular center hours Tuesdays-Fridays from 11am-4pm. From the Ground Up – A Forester’s View Ingeborg Seaboyer is a lifelong resident of Derry, New Hampshire. Her […]
Beginner Bird Walks: Concord Area 8am West Locke Road (dirt), Concord. Park along Locke Road (paved road) and do not block gate on dirt road. Join NH Audubon for a birding walk along trails in the Concord area. This is a 1-2 hour-long, informal birding walk that explores trails in the Concord area with Mark […]
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 […]
Date: June 14, 7:00pm-9:00pm Registration link: https://naturegroupie.org/experiences/nh-bat-counts-training Got bats? Help us count them! Attics, barns, and church steeples often serve as summer homes for female bats and their young. In the face of white-nose syndrome, which is causing significant declines in bat populations throughout the Northeast, monitoring these “maternity colonies” is more important than ever. […]
Seacoast Chapter Program Wednesday, June 15 Learn about how the Nongame and Endangered Wildlife Program at the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department monitors and manages the federally threatened and state endangered Piping Plover population on Hampton and Seabrook Beaches. From working with town and state officials on beach maintenance to recruiting volunteers, see how […]
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 […]
Join us at Fody's Tavern in Derry on Saturday, June 18, 2022 from 1-3pm: Kestrel IPA will be on draft and we'll be there with our resident Red-tailed Hawk. Stop by, enjoy a meal and a pint, and learn more about our native raptors! We've teamed up with True North Ale Company to help bring […]
Banding, Fledging, Flying This final program recaps the banding procedure of the resident falcon chicks while discussing the integral role longitudinal wildlife monitoring plays in research and conservation. From butterflies to bald eagles, metal bands and digital tags allow us to track populations and recognize patterns over the lifespan of various wildlife species. This webinar […]
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 […]
Join Marc Nutter (Conservation Program Director for New Hampshire Audubon), Phil Brown (Bird Conservation Director for the Harris Center), and Steven Lamonde (Ecologist at Moosewood Ecological) to explore NH Audubon’s Kensan-Devan Wildlife Sanctuary in Marlborough during the peak of breeding bird season. We’ll learn how a working forest can benefit songbirds and provide new recreational […]
This event has been cancelled. Purslane and crabgrass and chickweed, Oh my! Weeds can be a real problem in gardens, robbing preferred plants of nutrients, space, water and sunlight. Managing weeds can be a backbreaking and time-consuming chore. In this workshop you’ll learn techniques that reduce the need to weed so you can spend more […]
McLane Center is pleased to announce a new art exhibit on display by artist Ingeborg Seaboyer. The display will be up for public view from June 3-29 in Concord during regular center hours Tuesdays-Fridays from 11am-4pm. From the Ground Up – A Forester’s View Ingeborg Seaboyer is a lifelong resident of Derry, New Hampshire. Her […]
Date: June 29th, 5:00pm-6:30pm Price: $12 for members, $15 for non-members Join local nature photographer, Tracy Brunner, at the Massabesic Center for a late afternoon photo hike along Massabesic Lake. The walk will start at the Center and continue on the trails to photograph the beautiful lakeshore landscapes and the local wildlife. During the workshop, […]
McLane Center is pleased to announce a new art exhibit on display by artist Ingeborg Seaboyer. The display will be up for public view from June 3-29 in Concord during regular center hours Tuesdays-Fridays from 11am-4pm. From the Ground Up – A Forester’s View Ingeborg Seaboyer is a lifelong resident of Derry, New Hampshire. Her […]
The McLane Center presents the photography of Howard S. Muscott, visible during open hours (Tues-Fri 11am-5pm), July 1 through August 31, 2022. Special Exhibition Opening Thursday July 7th, 2022. 4-6 PM According to Howard, “Owls have always fascinated me and I’ve spent hours trying to find, photograph and experience their presence. Fortunately, New England in […]
