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Spring Birding Series
Multiple Locations OutdoorsJoin Zach Adams from Mass Audubon for a 3 part series on spring birding. Sign up for the whole series of three for a discounted price. Location: Pleasant Valley Wildlife Sanctuary, Lenox MA Instructor: Zach Adams - Teacher Naturalist, Berkshires…
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Photography Workshop Series
Mass Audubon Pleasant Valley Wildlife Sanctuary 472 West Mountain Rd, Lenox, MA, United StatesJoin local photographer Thadeus B. Kubis for a three-part series on photography. From cell phones to in-depth wildlife photography, you will explore how to capture the natural world at Pleasant Valley Wildlife Sanctuary and beyond. Sign up for one session…
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Photography Workshop Series
Mass Audubon Pleasant Valley Wildlife Sanctuary 472 West Mountain Rd, Lenox, MA, United StatesJoin local photographer Thadeus B. Kubis for a three-part series on photography. From cell phones to in-depth wildlife photography, you will explore how to capture the natural world at Pleasant Valley Wildlife Sanctuary and beyond. Sign up for one session…
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Photography Workshop Series
Mass Audubon Pleasant Valley Wildlife Sanctuary 472 West Mountain Rd, Lenox, MA, United StatesJoin local photographer Thadeus B. Kubis for a three-part series on photography. From cell phones to in-depth wildlife photography, you will explore how to capture the natural world at Pleasant Valley Wildlife Sanctuary and beyond. Sign up for one session…
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Massachusetts Climate Impacts & Solutions – Conserving Nature Close to Home Series
OnlineHow can you make the world a better place for people and wildlife? This free online series by Mass Audubon will explore what you can do in your community to address climate change by supporting nature. Learn how climate change…
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If These Artworks Could Talk!
OnlineIf These Artworks Could Talk! Glimpses into the Art, Artists and Collectors Behind the Museum's Collection Look at some of the treasures of bird art in Mass Audubon’s art collection, spanning several centuries, and many genres. Hear the stories of…
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Looking Closely: Connections Between Art and Science
OnlineLook closely at the inherent beauty of nature’s microscopic world to see the interplay between art and science. We’ll take a deep dive into some microscopic structures found in nature, such as feathers and pollen attached to native bees, and…
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Specimen, Sport, and Spirit: Collectors and the Varied Interpretations of Bird Art
OnlineBird art is a collecting category with many branches. Colleene Fesko and Amy Montague will engage in a lively discussion exploring why bird imagery speaks to several, often quite different, audiences—and if, in fact, there is a common denominator. Colleene…
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Nature by the Yard – Conserving Nature Close to Home Series
OnlineHow can you make the world a better place for people and wildlife? This free online series by Mass Audubon will explore what you can do in your community to address climate change by supporting nature. Learn how climate change…
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First Child in the Woods Guided Hike for Children & Caregivers
Mass Audubon Pleasant Valley Wildlife Sanctuary 472 West Mountain Rd, Lenox, MA, United StatesJoin Mass Audubon for the perfect introduction to nature. This one-hour hike will enable your child or children, birth to 5 years old, to gently discover the natural world around them and give you skills to confidently lead explorations of…
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Frank W. Benson: Artist, Ornithologist, Conservationist
OnlineAs a boy, Frank W. Benson spent every free moment tramping the marshes surrounding his boyhood in home in Salem, Massachusetts and sketching the birds that filled them. His first painting, at age 16, was of a snipe. Almost 70 years later,…
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Shorebirds in Modern Times: Two Centuries of Art, Science, and Conservation
OnlineSubhankar Banerjee has traveled the world, doing archival and field research (and photography) on shorebirds. His journeys have taken him across the United States to field locations in Alaska, Massachusetts, Maine, and New Mexico, and internationally to the Sundarban Tiger…
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Conservation in Your Community – Conserving Nature Close to Home Series
OnlineHow can you make the world a better place for people and wildlife? This free online series by Mass Audubon will explore what you can do in your community to address climate change by supporting nature. Learn how climate change…
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The Making of a Field Artist
OnlineBarry Van Dusen’s art and career took on an exciting new dimension when he decided to devote himself to drawing and painting nature subjects outdoors—direct from life. Hear about his inspirations and influences, his challenges and setbacks, and his progress…
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Reminiscences: A Half-Century Among Carved Birds and Their Collectors
OnlineOver the course of her long career, Gigi Hopkins has seen enormous changes in the world of decoys and miniatures: who collects them, how they are sold, and how they are understood by the art market and by museums and…
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Prepare Community Gardens for Spring
350 Williams Street 350 Williams Street, Pittsfield, MAIt's almost garden season. Help lay out community garden plots in preparation for the garden opening in early May. Clean out the accessible raised beds and weed and prepare shared herb garden. Volunteers under 16 need to be accompanied by…
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Spring Clean-Up Day
Mass Audubon Pleasant Valley Wildlife Sanctuary 472 West Mountain Rd, Lenox, MA, United StatesSpend your morning helping Pleasant Valley Wildlife Sanctuary get ready for the busy spring and summer seasons. Work to trim trails, install bog bridges, straighten fences, clean and organize the Nature Play Area, remove invasive plants from around the property,…
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Birding at the Mount
The Mount 2 Plunkett St, Lenox, MA, United StatesExplore Edith Wharton's original estate, including its woods, wetlands, and meadows. Learn skills to bird by sight and sound as we look for numerous bird species, including bobolinks, woodpeckers, vireos, and warblers. Walks depart from the main parking lot. For…
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Birding at the Mount
The Mount 2 Plunkett St, Lenox, MA, United StatesExplore Edith Wharton's original estate, including its woods, wetlands, and meadows. Learn skills to bird by sight and sound as we look for numerous bird species, including bobolinks, woodpeckers, vireos, and warblers. Walks depart from the main parking lot. For…
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Birding at the Mount
The Mount 2 Plunkett St, Lenox, MA, United StatesExplore Edith Wharton's original estate, including its woods, wetlands, and meadows. Learn skills to bird by sight and sound as we look for numerous bird species, including bobolinks, woodpeckers, vireos, and warblers. Walks depart from the main parking lot. For…