Birdathon 2014: By foot and float yields over 100 species
The VCE team opted for our customary low-carbon Birdathon this spring, but swapped hiking boots and mountain bikes for water shoes and kayaks/canoes. This all but quashed the possibility of…
VCE Launches a New Radio Program
Turn on, tune in and go out. Outdoors, that is. VCE and Vermont Public Radio on Thursday launch a new nature program celebrating what’s swimming, slithering, crawling, jumping, walking, flying…
Butterflies Meet Big Data and Social Media
Breaking News from VCE NORWICH, Vermont – VCE and a team of biologists from the U.S. and Canada today launched an ambitious online project allowing scientists and the public to report,…
Penguin Dancing Season
The loon season is upon us and the birds are back setting up and defending their territories from intruder loons. Most territorial encounters actually occur pre-nesting, thus this is a…
From Barely a Peep to a Cacophony
It’s a warm spring evening. The sun has set. Down in the valley, there is a chorus erupting, and up on the hill in a pond, another is just beginning….
And the late ice-out winner is….?
And the winner is … Little Averill Lake up on the Canadian border on May 6 or 7. Last week, I was checking in with volunteers in Averill, VT about…
April Photo-observation of the Month Winner
The iNaturalist Vermont April photo-observation of the month by popular vote was The Scribbler. The caterpillars of this tiny geometrid moth feed on alders, birches, maples, and willows. The adults…
Boreal Birds Need Half
One of the world’s greatest migrations is happening now. Billions of migratory birds are heading from the U.S., Central and South America to what’s been dubbed “North America’s bird nursery”…
Grassland Bird “Ambassadors” Talk Future and Outreach
A cool rainy day was well-spent indoors this weekend at the Grafton County UNH Cooperative Extension office for a discussion on grassland-nesting birds, hosted by myself and other experts on…
It’s Birdathon Time!
Team VCE is gearing up for another low-carbon Birdathon on May 20. After some dawn birding on-foot to a diversity of habitats in the Upper Valley, we’ll spend the rest…
Please Give Nesting Bald Eagles Space
The Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department is asking bird-watchers to give nesting bald eagles a hand this spring by enjoying them from a safe distance. Bald eagles are slowly recovering…
Back from the Nearly Dead
Just a few days ago they were frozen rock hard, a frog-sicle. But today, they are barking up a storm in the pond. They’re back from the nearly dead. Late last…
