by Bedford Audubon | Jun 6, 2017 | News
Join us this season for a series of area garden tours in New York and Connecticut. The gardens feature both native plants and an exploration of gardens designed by Beatrix Farrand (1872-1959), a pioneering landscape architect and garden designer. Liz Stein, the...
by Bedford Audubon | Jun 6, 2017 | News
Join us for a free public lecture on “Vultures: The Private Life of an Unloved Bird” with author Katie Fallon on Wednesday, June 14 at the Katonah Village Library Vultures are often overlooked, underappreciated, and unloved, despite the vital role they...
by Bedford Audubon | Jun 6, 2017 | News
1. It’s a great way for you to learn more about native plants— no prior experience necessary, and we welcome all ages and abilities! 2. You’ll get to see and hear lots of fabulous birds that stop in the Garden during migration, or make their homes...
by Bedford Audubon | Jun 2, 2017 | News
5 Look for Hobomok Skippers, a small but striking orange, brown, and yellow butterfly, zipping by you as you walk along the edges of deciduous woods. 9 Full Moon. 15 Listen for Eastern Gray Tree Frogs’ loud, ringing, bird-like trill on warm nights. 20 Look for...
by Bedford Audubon | May 2, 2017 | News
Join us for our Annual Meeting and a free public lecture on a Warming Climate, Changing Forest with Columbia Doctoral Candidate Angelica Patterson on May 10. Observations of plant community shifts within our forests confirm the local extinction of northern-ranged...
by Bedford Audubon | May 2, 2017 | News
May 2017 5-6 Eta Aquariid meteor shower. 10 Full moon. Approximate peak of spring bird migration. 15 Female turtles of several different species headed to specific egg-laying localities. When r escuing a turtle from a road, always put it on the side of the road it...
by Bedford Audubon | Apr 3, 2017 | News
LEON LEVY NATIVE GARDENER (2017) Bedford Audubon is pleased to announce the availability of a ten-week paid opportunity in our Native Garden, located at Bylane Farm, our center of operations in Katonah, New York. This position is supported in part due to the continued...
by Bedford Audubon | Mar 31, 2017 | News
SUMMER FIELD BIOLOGIST (2017) Bedford Audubon is pleased to announce the availability of a ten-week paid opportunity in field biology, located at Bylane Farm, our center of operations in Katonah, New York. About Bedford Audubon Society Bedford Audubon’s mission is to...
by Bedford Audubon | Mar 30, 2017 | News
Join us on Wednesday, April 12 for a free public lecture on Vector-borne Diseases: the Ecology of West Nile Virus. While most of us are familiar with Lyme Disease and how it’s spread by deer ticks, or the Zika Virus spread by mosquitoes in tropical climates. But we...
by Bedford Audubon | Apr 1, 2017 | News
April 2017 1 Many shorter-distance migrant birds now arriving or passing through, among them Northern Flicker, both Ruby-crowned and Golden-crowned Kinglets, many sparrow species, and a few of our earliest warblers like Pine and Yellow-rumped. 5 Spicebush in bloom....
