Events

Interested in learning more about the trees that make Maine so beautiful? Jeff Tarling, Maine Audubon's Urban Forestry Education Specialist, will show participants how to use leaf, bark, twig characteristics, and more to identify our local trees. Jeff will also focus on current and ongoing threats to our native tree species.

Seal Island National Wildlife Refuge hosts a large colony of Atlantic puffins. Razorbills, Common and Arctic Terns, Great Cormorants, and Common Eiders also nest here. Other seabirds and raptors are often spotted on or near the island, and we typically get great views of harbor seals and gray seals with their pups. Meet at the...

Join naturalist Wesley Hutchins for an engaging evening of insect identification and photography. We will set up an insect “light trap” sheet to identify the many different kinds of insects, especially moths, that land on the sheet. They can then be collected off the sheet, by hand or with a pair of tweezers, for identification...

Hit the trails and join the hunt! Families will complete a series of challenging and fun natural history tasks around the sanctuary.

Learn how to capture, cold stun, and identify bumblebee species that live on the Fields Pond Audubon Sanctuary. Participants will assist Maine Audubon staff in conducting surveys of bumblebees, the only social native bees in North America. You’ll receive training on identifying the common (and some uncommon) species of bumblebee in Maine, and the plants...

Join Karen Johnson, Maine Master Naturalist, for this leisurely late summer walk to identify goldenrods. Learn to identify the key botanical features that help to differentiate these species. If it’s a good summer, we should be able to find 10 different species!

Leaders: Sandi & Bob Duchesne Sears Island can be a “mini-Monhegan” during late summer and early autumn. With luck, we will catch the morning flight of migratory songbirds that have touched down on the island to rest and feed overnight.  They tend to collect in the trees along the causeway before crossing over to the...

Leader: Shane Barker The restored wetlands in Boulder Pond and Black Pond (formerly known as the Taylor Bait Ponds) are actively managed to attract migrating shorebirds and waterfowl.  Late summer to early fall is the best time to come for shorebirds, as this is the height of their migration through our region. CBCA can often...

Leader: Val Watson (Maine Master Naturalist) Learn to identify native plants and trees in the CBCA, in addition to looking for birds and mammals. Directions:  From Forest Avenue in Orono, take Taylor Road (aka the “Dump Road”) 0.3 miles to a slight left onto Putnam Road.  We will meet in the trailhead parking area in...