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.