Free pizza, cookies, and beverages starting at 6 p.m. Annual Meeting with featured speaker starting at 7 p.m. Please join us to elect chapter board members and officers, followed by a presentation from the 2023 recipient of the Inez Boyd Environmental Research Award (IBERA).  Rachel Darling, a Ph.D. candidate in Wildlife Ecology at the University […]

Leaders: Gloria Vollmers and Paul Markson Essex Woods is a delight for birders and nature photographers, offering a diversity of habitats and species along a short, easy walking trail.  Warblers, vireos, Baltimore orioles, and perhaps a black-billed cuckoo may turn up in the shrubs and forest, and a wide variety of ducks and wading birds […]

Co-sponsored by Bangor Land Trust Leaders:  Bob Milardo and Robert Ostrowski The ethereal sounds of American woodcock, hermit and wood thrushes, common nighthawks, and whip-poor-wills can be heard after sunset within the Walden Parke Preserve, a Bangor Land Trust property.  Join us for an evening walk to look and listen for whip-poor-wills and other crepuscular […]

Leaders: Gordon Russell and Jane Rosinski This will be a leisurely bird walk within the Great Pond Mountain Conservation Trust property in Orland, popularly known as The Wildlands. Your trip leaders plan to scout prior to the trip to select a trail that offers the best birding opportunities; please check the weekly listserv for updates. […]

Sunday, July 28, 12:30-6:00 p.m., rain or shine Leaders: Sandi and Bob Duchesne Cost: $80 adults/$45 under 12 Seal Island National Wildlife Refuge hosts a large colony of Atlantic puffins.  Razorbills, common and Arctic terns, and common eiders also nest here, and it’s the southernmost breeding colony for the great cormorant.  Other seabirds and raptors […]

Leader:  Bob Milardo In late summer and early fall, it’s not unusual to spot transient great egrets and migrating shorebirds at Essex Woods.  We also will look for multiple species of ducks, green and great blue herons, pied-billed grebes, and songbirds in migration, or getting ready to migrate. You never know what unusual species might […]

NEW THIS FALL! Join a Fields Pond naturalist on a guided hike for adults. Meet like-minded people,  spend time being active outdoors, and note the differences you see from week to week. Together we'll observe the changing of the season, and learn how regular observations of nature can contribute to scientific understanding worldwide. Hikes will […]

We will explore, observe, and track phenological variations in plant and animal life across the season, right here on the FPAC sanctuary. Parents, this program can be an integral part of your child's science curriculum for ages 8-12 (Grades 3-6).  Drop ins are welcomed on a space-available basis; please call ahead to confirm availability.

Join a naturalist online to learn about one Maine species each week. We'll explore everything from scientific names to extreme adaptations and odd morphology. Strengthen your knowledge of Maine's flora and fauna in a fun and informal setting.