Week of Events
Monday, May 12, 2025
No events on this day.
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
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Wednesday, May 14, 2025
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May 14, 2025 -Volunteer Opportunity: Rain Garden Work Parties
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May 14, 2025Spring Bird Walks With Berkshire Bird Observatory
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May 14, 2025 -The Wondrous World of Fireflies
Volunteer Opportunity: Rain Garden Work Parties
Volunteers Needed! Help keep Pittsfield's rain gardens beautiful! Pittsfield has 10 rain gardens on North Street with a few more scattered throughout the city. These rain gardens allow the stormwater from the streets and sidewalks to infiltrate and be cleaned…
Spring Bird Walks With Berkshire Bird Observatory
Learn to find, identify and more fully appreciate our migratory and resident birds on these community bird walks. Meet other wonderful people while exploring outside together! Bring binoculars if you have them--if not, we can share. Everyone is welcome! Beginners…
The Wondrous World of Fireflies
Grow Native Massachusetts: Evenings with Experts Fireflies are surely among our greatest ambassadors for Earth’s natural magic. For centuries their ethereal beauty has sparked wonder and inspired poets, artists, and children of all ages. Yet they hold so many mysteries!…
Thursday, May 15, 2025
No events on this day.
Friday, May 16, 2025
No events on this day.
Saturday, May 17, 2025
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May 17, 2025 -Hoffmann Bird Club at Steepletop, New Marlborough
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May 17, 2025 -Lake Mansfield Volunteer Day: Forest and Lakeside Trail
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May 17, 2025 -Lazy Composting: 6 Ways to Keep Kitchen and Yard Waste Out of Landfills (Free Workshop)
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May 17, 2025 -River Cleanup and Native Tree Planting
Hoffmann Bird Club at Steepletop, New Marlborough
Join Hoffmann Bird Club for a morning of birding at Steepletop, a Berkshire Natural Resource Council (BNRC) property in New Marlborough, MA. The property consists of wood roads and trails through deciduous and mixed conifer forests. The terrain has easy,…
Lake Mansfield Volunteer Day: Forest and Lakeside Trail
Bring along your work gloves and shovels and join Great Barrington Land Conservancy for an ambitious work party at Lake Mansfield. Volunteers are needed to collect litter, remove invasive species, and help with the planting of trees, shrubs and perennials.…
Lazy Composting: 6 Ways to Keep Kitchen and Yard Waste Out of Landfills (Free Workshop)
Whether you live in an apartment, a home with a backyard, or somewhere in between, this free, hands-on workshop is perfect for beginners and those who are compost-curious! During this workshop, participants will: See real-life composting strategies in action. Learn…
River Cleanup and Native Tree Planting
Join Berkshire Natural Resources Council in stewarding a local waterway! In partnership with the Center for Peace Through Culture and local public schools, BNRC is hosting a workday to help restore the banks of the Housatonic River. Thanks to the…
Sunday, May 18, 2025
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May 18, 2025 -Hoffmann Bird Club at Springside Park (Spring Walk)
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May 18, 2025 -Bobolinks at Field Farm with Hoffmann Bird Club
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May 18, 2025 -Sunset Hike with Queer Men of the Berkshires and BNRC
Hoffmann Bird Club at Springside Park (Spring Walk)
Join Hoffmann Bird Club for a morning of birding at Springside Park, the largest municipal park in Pittsfield, to look for migrating songbirds and sparrows, or walk some of the many woodland trails on the 237 acres. DATE: Sunday, May 18…
Bobolinks at Field Farm with Hoffmann Bird Club
Join Hoffmann Bird Club leader Peter Rogers to view the breeding Bobolinks at the peak of their activity! This established seasonal community of birds has been monitored annually for over 15 years as part of a citizen science project. Easy…
Sunset Hike with Queer Men of the Berkshires and BNRC
Join Berkshire Natural Resources Council and Q-MoB (Queer Men of the Berkshires) on an evening hike from CHP Great Barrington to a series of wetlands, meadows, and forests that play home to an amazing symphony of spring peepers (frogs), beavers,…