The Great backyard bird count

2024 Great Backyard Bird Count

Get outside and participate in the annual Great Backyard Bird Count! Started in 1998 by the National Audubon Society and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, it is the first online community science project to gather data on wild birds. People in more than 100 countries participate in helping put together a global count over 96 continuous …

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valentines day fun

Valentine’s Day Fun

For most of us, the passion and excitement surrounding Valentine’s Day has been replaced (temporarily!) with the busyness and dread of covering a shoebox with construction paper and taping 23 lollipops to Teenage Mutant Ninja cards.   So yeah…Valentine’s Day may not hold the promise of a romantic weekend away. But there’s still plenty of opportunities …

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MLK Day Celebrations

Created to honor the great Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., MLK Day is celebrated on the 3rd Monday in January (this year it is January 16th). The spirit of the day is best described by his widow Coretta Scott King: On this holiday, we commemorate the universal, unconditional love, forgiveness and nonviolence that empowered his revolutionary …

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