NH Audubon

Monitoring and Managing New Hampshire's Piping Plovers
2022-06-15 19:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Seacoast Science Center, Odiorne State Park, Route 1A, Rye, NH, United States
Seacoast Chapter Program
Wednesday, June 15

Learn about how the Nongame and Endangered Wildlife Program at the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department monitors and manages the federally threatened and state endangered Piping Plover population on Hampton and Seabrook Beaches. From working with town and state officials on beach maintenance to recruiting volunteers, see how you can help protect this tiny shorebird.
Bio: Brendan Clifford is a Wildlife Biologist with the Nongame and Endangered Wildlife Program at New Hampshire Fish and Game. Brendan has been coordinating the Piping Plover monitoring effort in New Hampshire for the past 15 years.
Visit the Seacoast Chapter website for further details. This is an in-person talk at the Seacoast Science Center.

NH Bat Counts Training
2022-06-14 19:00 - 21:00 | Massabesic Center, 26 Audubon Way, Auburn, NH, United States
Date: June 14, 7:00pm-9:00pm
Registration link: https://naturegroupie.org/experiences/nh-bat-counts-training
Got bats? Help us count them! Attics, barns, and church steeples often serve as summer homes for female bats and their young. In the face of white-nose syndrome, which is causing significant declines in bat populations throughout the Northeast, monitoring these “maternity colonies” is more important than ever. NH Fish and Game and UNH Cooperative Extension are looking for landowners, homeowners, and other volunteers to help keep track of New Hampshire’s bats by conducting “emergence counts” at bat roosts throughout the state.
Join wildlife biologists Sandi Houghton of NH Fish & Game and Haley Andreozzi of UNH Cooperative Extension for a presentation and demonstration at NH Audubon’s Massabesic Center to learn more about the bat species found in New Hampshire, the threats leading to population declines, and how you can help conserve bats. The training will start with an indoor presentation on bats in New Hampshire, followed by a bat counting demonstration outdoors at dusk. Attendees will be trained to participate in the NH Bat Counts project, which involves citizen science volunteers in helping to monitor summer bat colonies in New Hampshire. This training is free, but space is limited and registration is required. Masks are recommended, but not required inside the Massabesic Audubon Center. This policy is subject to change based on CDC guidelines and county transmission rates.
Sponsoring Organizations: NH Fish & Game, UNH Cooperative Extension, NH Audubon

What to bring:
The second half of the training will be held outside. Be prepared for bugs (especially mosquitoes) – bring bug spray or wear clothing to protect yourself. Bring a flashlight or headlamp to increase visibility walking back to your car.

Native Plant Sale
2022-06-12 12:00 - 16:00 | McLane Center, 84 Silk Farm Road, Concord, NH, 03301, United States
Join us for the McLane Center Native Plant Sale. Bagley Pond Perennials will be at the center with a wide selection of native plants and shrubs for purchase. Bagley Pond is a native perennial farm that follows organic practices. Their goal is to provide home gardeners with pollinator safe, native plants and shrubs to support our native pollinators and wildlife.
Bagley Pond also sells garden kits that include plants adapted to specific planting conditions. Featured this year is a NH Pollinator Certification Kit.
NH Audubon Staff and Pollinator Garden Volunteers will be available to answer your questions about gardening, pollinators, native wildlife, and native plants.
Tour our McLane Center Pollinator gardens while you are browsing for plants!
Photo: native plant sale from past years (Marc Nutter).

Buds & Blooms: Beginner Botany
2022-06-11 10:00 - 11:00 | McLane Center, 84 Silk Farm Road, Concord, NH, 03301, United States
Beginner Botany is our first Buds & Blooms program. From the air we breathe to the clothes we wear, our relationship with plants far exceeds consumption. Let’s investigate the many ways we interact with our botanical buddies while exploring the McLane Center’s Pollinator Garden. We’ll learn how it is that plants create their own food before oftentimes becoming a food source for someone else! A scavenger hunt to put our new botanical knowledge to use will conclude this interactive program.
Intended for kids and families, the Buds & Blooms Series is a compilation of five in-person public programs intended to introduce participants to the magic and wonder of our native plants and pollinators. Occurring monthly through October, each program highlights a topic pertaining to pollinators and includes an interactive activity as well as a take away. Parental supervision is required and content/material is best suited for children ages 4-12.
This program is free of cost, but RSVP’s are required to reserve your spot.
Photo Credit: Pixabay

Concord Area Beginner Bird Walks - June 11
2022-06-11 08:00 - 10:00 | West Locke Road, 27 Locke Road, Concord, NH, 03301, United States
Beginner Bird Walks: Concord Area
8am West Locke Road (dirt), Concord. Park along Locke Road (paved road) and do not block gate on dirt road.
Join NH Audubon for a birding walk along trails in the Concord area.
This is a 1-2 hour-long, informal birding walk that explores trails in the Concord area with Mark Suomala, experienced birder and weekly Rare Bird Alert compiler. All ages and skill levels of birders are welcome. If you are new to birding, come and learn the basics! If you are an avid birder, come to learn new techniques, network with other birders, or share your expertise with the group.
Cost: $8 Members/$10 Non-members. Registration is required; please purchase your tickets (below), although there are no actual hard-copy tickets.
Wear sturdy shoes, and bring binoculars, sunscreen (or rain gear), and bug repellent. Please leave pets at home. Several pairs of binoculars will be available for you to use on the walk at no extra cost.
Capacity: 20 people

Google Maps Pin: https://goo.gl/maps/Ytt2rjJ52mN8e4MU8

Photo: White-throated Sparrow (Mark Suomala).

How to Report Invasive Plants to EDDMaps Training
2022-06-10 13:00 - 16:00 | Massabesic Center, 26 Audubon Way, Auburn, NH, United States
Join the Nature Groupie team for the last session in our New Hampshire Audubon Invasive Champion trainings, this one focused on how to report invasive plants to EDDMaps. EDDMaps is a free website and app our state uses for reporting invasive plants. Participants will be walked through how to report plants through the app, how invasive plant management can be tracked and how to use it for invasive plant workdays. Registration is required. Rain Date: 6/17.
This event may take place inside and outside, please come prepared for either. Bring water, a snack, your smartphone or tablet and note-taking materials.
To register visit: https://naturegroupie.org/experiences/how-report-invasive-plants-eddmaps-training

Art Exhibit: From the Ground Up
2022-06-10 11:00 - 16:00, 2022-06-03 11:00 - 16:00 | McLane Center, 84 Silk Farm Road, Concord, NH, 03301, United States
McLane Center is pleased to announce a new art exhibit on display by artist Ingeborg Seaboyer. The display will be up for public view from June 3-29 in Concord during regular center hours Tuesdays-Fridays from 11am-4pm.
From the Ground Up – A Forester’s View
Ingeborg Seaboyer is a lifelong resident of Derry, New Hampshire. Her art education has stretched from Pinkerton Academy to the University of New Hampshire to the Manchester Institute of Arts & Sciences (now the New Hampshire Institute of Art) where she began to explore pen and ink drawing in 1993. A forester with the State of New Hampshire Division of Forests and Lands, her drawing has turned into something of a second career. Her works draw on her lifetime in fields and forests of New England; truly viewing those rural landscapes from the ground up.
Ingeborg has illustrated three books: Selecting Trees for Urban Landscape Ecosystems, and Good Forestry in the Granite State 1st and 2nd Editions. She provided most of the illustrations for Project Learning Tree’s Focus on New Hampshire Forests. Additionally, she has completed commissions for the New Hampshire Timberland Owners Association, the New Hampshire Tree Farm Committee, the Granite State Division of the Society of American Foresters and UNH Cooperative Extension. She often combines watercolor and colored pencil with her pen and ink techniques, as well as working solely in watercolor. She is a founding member of the Derry Area Artists Collaborative and her work can be viewed at www.derryareaartists.com.

Birding Walk at Massabesic Center
2022-06-10 08:00 - 09:00, 2022-06-03 08:00 - 09:00, 2022-05-27 08:00 - 09:00 | Massabesic Center, 26 Audubon Way, Auburn, NH, United States
Join NH Audubon for a birding walk along the trails at Massabesic Center (MAC) in Auburn.
This is an hour-long, informal birding walk that begins at MAC and explores the trails with Slater, Massabesic Center’s Education Coordinator. All ages and skill levels of birders are welcome. If you are new to birding, come and learn the basics! If you are an avid birder, come to learn new techniques, network with other birders, or share your expertise with the group.
Cost: $8 Members/$10 Non-members. Registration is required; please purchase your tickets (below), although there are no actual hard-copy tickets.
Photo- Red-bellied Woodpecker by Pam Hunt

NH Butterfly Monitoring Network: How you can make important contributions
2022-06-02 19:00 - 20:30 | Zoom Link, United States
NH Butterfly Monitoring Network: How you can make important contributions.
Friday, June 2: 7-8:15pm
Cost: Free
Registration Link
We are looking for curious and observant people to help us with a new initiative, the NH Butterfly Monitoring Network! There are over 100 species of butterflies in the state and we need help collecting data on them to monitor their populations over time. Find out how you can contribute from Spring to Fall with your observations of butterflies and participate in an organized survey in your area. We’ll also send you off with a few species to be looking for this time of year.
Heidi Holman is a wildlife diversity biologist with the NH Fish and Game Department. She received her M.S degree from the University of Minnesota in Conservation Biology. Her primary responsibilities include implementation of recovery efforts for the Karner blue butterfly and the New England cottontail rabbit including habitat restoration and release of individuals from captive breeding programs.
New Hampshire Audubon Pollinator Speaker Series: Celebrating and Engaging in Pollinator Conservation
Join New Hampshire Audubon for our 2022 Pollinator Webinar series as we celebrate Pollinator Conservation. This series seeks to inspire involvement and engagement in pollinator conservation through close focus programs that will allow participants to gain a deeper understanding and knowledge of pollinators and the plants they depend on. Programs are free to the public, streamed via Zoom, YouTube, and Facebook Live. Presentations are supported by a grant from the Benjamin and Gertrude Couch Trusts.
The Pollinator Series will kick off on Earth Day, Friday April 22 and culminate with a Pollinator BioBlitz at the McLane Center in Concord, NH on June 25.

Project Nighthawk Volunteer Training
2022-06-02 17:30 - 18:30 | Zoom Link, United States
Nighthawks were once common in cities throughout New Hampshire, where they nested on gravel roofs and fed on insects attracted to city lights. In recent years, these acrobatic birds have disappeared from many New Hampshire towns, but they still nest in Keene, Concord, and a handful of other places in the Granite State. Help keep track of this charismatic endangered species by monitoring nighthawks this summer! To volunteer with Project Nighthawk, attend this online training with Becky Suomala (NH Audubon) and Brett Amy Thelen (Harris Center). We’ll provide an introduction to nighthawk identification and ecology, and offer tips for nighthawk watching — including where to scout for them in the twilight skies.
5:30 to 6:30 p.m. via Zoom. Closed captioning will be available. To get the login details, please register here. Co-sponsored by the Harris Center for Conservation Education, NH Audubon, and Keene State College.
This event will be recorded. To ensure access to the recording, please register for this event, even if you cannot attend live.

Jeffreys Ledge Pelagic Birding Trip
2022-05-30 08:00 - 17:00 | Rye Harbor, 1870 Ocean Blvd (Rte 1A), Rye, NH, 03870, United States
Location: Rye Harbor, NH
Monday, May 30, 8 am – 5 pm
Cost: $75 Member / $95 Non-Member
Join NH Audubon aboard MV Granite State as we explore Jeffreys Ledge, 20 miles off the New Hampshire coast. We’ll spend all day at sea, searching for pelagic seabirds, whales, dolphins, and anything else that happens to cross our course. Once you register, you will receive confirmation and further information. Participants need to meet at Rye Harbor at 7:30am for check-in and 8am departure. Minimum of 30 participants. Pre-registration required. ​
(To register for Intro to Pelagic Wildlife, see the event for May 29th.)
Photo: Great Shearwater, by Amanda Boyd, USFWS

Introduction to Pelagic Wildlife
2022-05-29 15:00 - 16:00 | Zoom Link, United States
Sunday, May 29th, 3 – 4 pm
Cost: $5 for members, $6 for non-members (free to those attending Pelagic Trip on May 31)
Leader: Jon Woolf
Watch an educational slideshow about some of the wildlife you might see just off NH’s coast. We’ll teach you how to identify some of our common pelagic birds as well as a few of our frequently sighted whale species.
Zoom link will be sent 1 day prior by email.
To register for the Pelagic Birding Boat Trip, see the event for May 30th
Photo: Great Shearwater, by Amanda Boyd, USFWS

Nature Interpreted Art Exhibition
2022-05-29 11:00 - 14:00, 2022-05-27 11:00 - 16:00, 2022-05-26 11:00 - 16:00, 2022-05-25 11:00 - 16:00, 2022-05-24 11:00 - 16:00, 2022-05-20 11:00 - 16:00, 2022-05-19 11:00 - 16:00, 2022-05-18 11:00 - 16:00 | Massabesic Center, 26 Audubon Way, Auburn, NH, United States
Calling upon each artist’s distinct “Spirit of the Maker”, the Nature Interpreted exhibition at New Hampshire Audubon’s Massabesic Center showcases the unique methods and techniques of three League of NH Craftsmen juried members. Participants include photographer Alicia Bergeron, intaglio printmaker J. Ann Eldridge and serigraphic printmaker William Mitchell. The exhibition opens with a reception on April 30th from 2-4pm and continues at Massabesic Center through May 29th.

Massabesic Center is open for the public to view this installation Tuesday – Friday 11am-4pm.
Special hours for the opening reception are Saturday April 30th from 2-4pm.
Additional open hours will be Saturday, May 7, 9am-11am and Sunday, May 29, 9am-2pm

Concord Area Beginner Bird Walks - May 27
2022-05-27 08:00 - 10:00 | Samuel Myron Chase Wildlife Sanctuary, Jewett Road, Hopkinton, NH, 03229, United States
Beginner Bird Walks: Concord Area
8am Samuel Myron Chase Wildlife Sanctuary, Hopkinton. Park at Jewett Road South entrance for Brown/Robinson Trail.
Parking Area: https://goo.gl/maps/XsZ9MPUCdG4gMgUN8
Join NH Audubon for a birding walk along trails in the Concord area.
This is a 1-2 hour-long, informal birding walk that explores trails in the Concord area with Mark Suomala, experienced birder and weekly Rare Bird Alert compiler. All ages and skill levels of birders are welcome. If you are new to birding, come and learn the basics! If you are an avid birder, come to learn new techniques, network with other birders, or share your expertise with the group.
Cost: $8 Members/$10 Non-members. Registration is required; please purchase your tickets (below), although there are no actual hard-copy tickets.
Wear sturdy shoes, and bring binoculars, sunscreen (or rain gear), and bug repellent. Please leave pets at home. Several pairs of binoculars will be available for you to use on the walk at no extra cost.
Capacity: 20 people

Photo: White-throated Sparrow (Mark Suomala).

Photography Workshop at Massabesic Center
2022-05-26 17:00 - 18:30 | Massabesic Center, 26 Audubon Way, Auburn, NH, United States
Date: May 26th, 5:00pm-6:30pm
Price: $12 for members, $15 for non-members
Join local nature photographer, Tracy Brunner, at the Massabesic Center for a late afternoon photo hike along Massabesic Lake. The walk will start at the Center and continue on the trails to photograph the beautiful lakeshore landscapes and the local wildlife. During the workshop, Tracy will discuss tips for getting the most out of your landscape photographs, will provide suggestions for camera settings and creative compositions, and answer your photography questions.
Recommended Equipment:
· Camera with spare batteries
· Comfortable walking shoes

· Wide, standard, or zoom lenses (any will will work)
· Tripod (optional)
· Polarizer or neutral density filters (optional)

Photo credit: Tracy Brunner

Brockway Nature Outing for Preschool Ages
2022-05-24 10:00 - 10:45 | Brockway Nature Preserve, Farrington Corner Road, Hopkinton, NH, United States
Join New Hampshire Audubon at Brockway Nature Preserve in Hopkinton for nature exploration with your 3-5 year old. The programs will be held the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of every month. Each Tuesday will be an exciting theme relating to the seasons and wildlife (see below). It will begin at 10am and run for about 45 minutes.
This is an outdoor location with no bathroom facilities. Please dress children for the weather and be ready to walk on the trail, sit on logs and the ground, and dig in the dirt!
Programs will be cancelled if poor weather is predicted during the program time, participants will be notified by email.
Directions: To find the meeting circle, park at the Brockway Nature Preserve parking area along Farrington Corners Road in Hopkinton, then follow the entrance trail across the bridge to the circle. For detailed directions, visit hop-kintonconservaland.org/Brockway-preserve.
Cost: Free to Hopkinton Residents*; Non-resident NH Audubon members: $5/family; Non-resident non-members: $10/family
Registration is required. For questions, please email Shelby Morelli.
Maximum: 10 children
*Thanks to an endowment from Dorothy Brockway Osborn this program is free for Hopkinton Residents.
Themes:
November 23: Oh Deer!
December 14: Evergreens and Cones
December 28: Sleepy Critters
January 11: Wildlife Homes
January 25: Who made that Track?
February 8: Flighted Friends
February 22: Animal Babies
March 8: Hide and Seek
March 22: Welcome Spring!
April 12: Who lives in a Shell?
April 26: Busy Beavers
May 10: Who lives in the Pond?
May 24: Insect Investigation

Watering Your Garden with Drip Irrigation
2022-05-23 16:00 - 18:00 | Massabesic Center, 26 Audubon Way, Auburn, NH, United States
Learn to conserve water, uniformly irrigate, reduce weed and disease pressure, and save time.
Join us for a workshop on how to install a drip irrigation system for a vegetable or annual flower garden. Find out how to design and construct an irrigation system, what materials are needed, best practices for water management, maintaining and troubleshooting a system, and how to take advantage of drip irrigation to grow healthy and productive plants. This workshop will include hands-on demonstration of setting up a drip irrigation system. Open to the gardening public.
Instructor- Pamela Hargest, Horticulture Professional for UMaine Cooperative Extension in Cumberland County
Space is limited to 30 participants
Fee: $15/person; $10/NHA member or Extension volunteer
Register here: https://learnforlife.unh.edu/portal/events/reg/participantTypeSelection.do?method=load&entityId=223565407

Concord Area Beginner Bird Walks - May 22
2022-05-22 08:00 - 10:00 | West Locke Road, 27 Locke Road, Concord, NH, 03301, United States

Native Plants and the Pollinators They Attract
2022-05-19 19:00 - 20:30 | Zoom Link, United States
Native Plants and the Pollinators they Attract
Thursday, May 19: 7-8:15pm
Cost: Free
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Pollinators have evolved with native plants, and most pollinators feed on specific plant species. Hummingbirds tend to favor long, tubular flowers, while short-tongued bees prefer more open-faced flowers. Learn how you can attract and support a maximum diversity of pollinators in your landscape by carefully selecting native plants that serve a variety of pollinating insect and animal needs.
Emma Erler is a horticulturist at the Squam Lakes Natural Science Center. Her expertise is in ecological landscaping and native plants, and she provides educational programming on numerous gardening topics, including gardening for pollinators and wildlife. She also manages the Kirkwood Gardens in Holderness, NH, a free public garden that is open daily, which focuses on beautiful and sustainable landscape practices.
New Hampshire Audubon Pollinator Speaker Series: Celebrating and Engaging in Pollinator Conservation
Join New Hampshire Audubon for our 2022 Pollinator Webinar series as we celebrate Pollinator Conservation. This series seeks to inspire involvement and engagement in pollinator conservation through close focus programs that will allow participants to gain a deeper understanding and knowledge of pollinators and the plants they depend on. Programs are free to the public, streamed via Zoom, YouTube, and Facebook Live. Presentations are supported by a grant from the Benjamin and Gertrude Couch Trusts.
The Pollinator Series will kick off on Earth Day, Friday April 22 and culminate with a Pollinator BioBlitz at the McLane Center in Concord, NH on June 25.

BBW Pickering Ponds
2022-05-18 07:00 - 12:00 | NH
An encore of the very popular Pickering Ponds walk on May 8. One of the top 10 birding spots in New Hampshire, this walk will traverse Rochester city park trails along the Cocheco River and around the former wastewater treatment settling ponds. Meet at the Pickering Ponds parking area at 7am. The entrance is about a mile south of the Rochester Wastewater Treatment Plant on Pickering Road (opposite mailbox #374). Contact: Dan Hubbard at danielhubbard@peoplepc.com or 603-978-0218.
This field trip will be limited to 20 participants. Visit the Seacoast Chapter website for event details and to sign up.

Beginner Bird Walks (BBW)
The NH Audubon Seacoast Chapter will have six Beginner Bird Walks (BBW) this spring, 2022. Although these walks are geared with the beginner birder in mind, birders of all levels of expertise are encouraged to participate and share their experiences. Children are gladly welcome with an adult. Participants should be fully vaccinated and are encouraged to bring binoculars, water, insect repellent, and sunscreen.
