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Welcome Back! Announcing an exciting series of events this spring featuring former staff and volunteers Centennial Birdathon/Bloomathon is May 17-18 sharing their talents. See page CE3 for details. s NH Audubon enters its second your support for this great competition! Acentury, one thing is clear - The Birdathon/Bloomathon is ALSO IN THIS ISSUE: conservation challenges require us ALL outdoor exploration with a purpose. Conservation Dept. 4 to be more mindful of decisions shaping Join in the excitement as teams of the future of wildlife, natural places, observers, representing NH Audubon’s McLane Center 6 and ultimately, ourselves. The 2014 Centers, Chapters, and groups of Amoskeag Fishways 7 Birdathon/Bloomathon promises to individuals, try to see as many species Massabesic Audubon Center 9 provide that opportunity. Fun, accessible of birds and/or blooming wildflowers as Statewide Chapters 12 and inclusive, this year’s fundraising possible within a single day, in whatever event will entice members and all who New Hampshire location they choose. Sanctuary Field Trips 15 are interested to form friendly but Several teams are already forming, Spring and Summer Camp CE4 competitive teams to search for birds including expert-led groups that and blooms statewide. Looking back welcome beginners! 100 years, birds were the gateway to the All funds raised will be split 50/50 conservation movement that still guides between NH Audubon and the Chapter, our work in education, advocacy, wildlife Center, or area of your team’s choice research, and stewardship/conservation. (raptor observatories, animal care or We invite you to participate in or pledge education, for example), so pledges from your friends and family are encouraged. Above: Male Magnolia Warbler in a flowering Protecting New Hampshire’s willow – two iconic symbols of spring that Natural Environment might be seen during Birdathon/Bloomathon. Continued on page 3 for Wildlife and for People Photo by Len Medlock. NEW HAMPSHIRE AUDUBON NEWSLETTER & PROGRAM GUIDE FROM THE PRESIDENT’S DESK NH AUDUBON NEWS

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ransformation. Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary Birdathon/Bloomathon May 17 – Birdathon/ Tdefines it as “a complete or major change in Bloomathon trips around the someone’s or something’s appearance, form, etc.” state BOARD OF TRUSTEES That word has many applications here at NH The Rules: Tony Sayess, Chair, Concord Audubon – whether we’re talking about the butterflies It’s easy to participate in Birdathon/Bloomathon! May 18 – Local celebrations, Kelly Lynch Dwyer, Vice-Chair, Hooksett coordinated by Team Captains Bill Crangle, Treasurer, Plymouth we will be studying this summer, viewing photos of one There’s no registration fee, just an expectation George Chase, Secretary, Hopkinton of our Manchester-banded Peregrine Falcons strolling that individuals collect pledges as a way to Michael Amaral, Warner Betsy Blaisdell, Portsmouth down the beach in the Bronx or discussing the successful involve an even greater audience in this event… Jonathan Edwards, Bedford restoration of nesting Bald Eagles in New Hampshire even those who stay indoors. Donations and David Howe, Concord (from 0 to 40 over the last 30 years). pledges come from friends, co-workers, family Lauren Kras, Merrimack Prizes will be awarded to In Memoriam Stefanie Lamb, Concord These are all examples of the important work we do here, day in and day out. members, Facebook, local businesses, etc. category winners and to those Dawn Lemieux, Groton These are all examples of what sets NH Audubon apart from the other conservation who raise the most in pledges. New Hampshire Audubon is hon- Art Mudge, Hanover Paul Nickerson, Londonderry organizations in the state. • Form a team with friends (2-6 participants/ Participation in the Birdathon/ ored to receive donations in mem- Joann O’Shaughnessy, Manchester NH Audubon has also been fortunate to enjoy another type of transformation, team) or join a Chapter or Center group Bloomathon means that ory of friends and relatives who David Ries, Warner this time of a very human nature. In the past year, a few generous and committed everyone wins – including the have died. These gifts are a valuable Thomas Warren, Dublin • Captains will coordinate multiple teams for people have provided bequests to support our work – bequests that total over 2 contribution to the work we do for Chapters, Centers or Programs birds and plants! STAFF million dollars! For a small non-profit, one that has endured fiscal challenges and wildlife and conservation. Michael J. Bartlett, President perpetual belt-tightening, that incredible generosity has indeed been transformative. • Set goals: for example, aim for a big day of Can’t participate in Birdathon? Since the last issue of Afield, 100 bird species or 10 new plants you’ve Nancy Boisvert, Nature Store Manager Those funds have allowed us to rebuild the foundation of our financial “house” and, You can still support your thoughtful gifts were made in mem- Phil Brown, Director of Land Management with careful stewardship, will allow us to focus wholeheartedly on the other types of never seen favorite team by visiting www. Rachel Brown, Amoskeag Fishways Sr. Program Naturalist ory of the following individuals: transformation (the scientific kind!) that represent our mission. nhaudubon.org/birding/ Lynn Bouchard, Director of Human Resources • Sign up pledges to support your Chapter, Vernon F. Cheney Hillary Chapman, Education Specialist The next Afield will tell you more about our benefactors, so stay tuned. This birdathon. Elizabeth P. Crowley Gail Coffey, Grants Manager Center, or area of interest Helen Dalbeck, Amoskeag Fishways Learning Center Director current issue of Afield speaks to the here and now, immersed as we are in an array of Sarah W. Gallagher Nina Dea-Chambers, Newfound Program Naturalist Centennial activities that complement our everyday operations. Camps, art exhibits, • Travel across the state or focus on a favorite Frances E. Golomb Diane DeLuca, Senior Biologist a concert, an enhanced Birdathon/Bloomathon, Center programming, Chapter local spot or NH Audubon Sanctuary Genevieve Greenleaf Laura Deming, Senior Biologist Elizabeth I. Jones Carol Foss, Director of Conservation initiatives… all this information and more are sandwiched into this newsletter. I • Spend a few hours in the field - or search for Harry McDade Marlene Friedrich, Animal Care Specialist hope you will read every page, and then choose some way to participate and celebrate 24 hours straight! Pete Panagos Melissa Grella, Newfound Audubon Center Director with us. Tim Foster, Facilities Assistant Harry T. Platt Dawn Genes, Massabesic Audubon Center Director Transformation. As spring approaches and our fields, forests, water bodies and For registration details and Grace E. Pomeroy Jane Hanson, Massabesic Center Coordinator wildlife are exploding with new life, just watch what is happening at NH Audubon! more information, contact Craig Holmes, Receptionist Eva Powers Pamela Hunt, Senior Biologist (And join the fun…) your local NH Audubon Martha Rice Vanessa Jones, GIS Specialist/Dept. Management Assistant Chapter; Birdathon/ Wendy S. Schorr Mark Karl, IT & Database Manager —Michael J. Bartlett Bloomathon Coordinator Peter R. Stettenheim Angie Krysiak, Massabesic Center Program Director Guy Swenson Gaye LaCasce, Director of Membership & Development President, New Hampshire Audubon Phil Brown (224-9909 x334 Mary Malan, Director of Finance or pbrown@nhaudubon. Janet M. Warren Chris Martin, Senior Biologist Thelma E. Warren org); or visit www. Kathleen Neville, Amoskeag Fishways Sr. Program Naturalist Patricia Wible Kathleen Palfy, Membership Coordinator nhaudubon.org/birding/ CALL FOR AWARD NOMINATIONS Mark Wiley Wayne Richard, Facilities Manager birdathon. Registration Ruth Smith, Centennial Coordinator Rebecca Spinney, Accountant Do you know someone who has done outstanding work for conservation, the study deadline is May 13. Early Rebecca Suomala, Senior Biologist of birds, or who has been a tireless volunteer for New Hampshire Audubon? Help us registration is recommended Honoraria Kevin Wall, Director of Education Sarah Wall, Events Manager recognize them! The Board of Trustees requests nominations for the Tudor Richards to provide team strategy and Rhodora by Phil Brown Kelly Wing, Communications Manager Award and the Goodhue-Elkins Award, which will be presented at the Annual fund raising opportunities. Thoughtful gifts were made in Logan Young, Massabesic Center Volunteer Coordinator Meeting. Details on the awards, past recipients, and nomination forms are available New this year – easy online tools through honor of the following people: Hope A. Kelly on the NH Audubon web site (under About), www.nhaudubon.org/about/annual- FirstGiving where you can set up your own Robert D. Jones individual fundraising web page to share New Hampshire Audubon Afield awards. Submission deadline is April 1, 2014 – no fooling! If you have questions Joann M. Hoy Kelly Wing, General Editor contact Becky Suomala, [email protected] x309. electronically (via email, Facebook, other social Daniel Hubbard media). We can help!

2 SPRING 2014 NH AUDUBON AFIELD NH AUDUBON AFIELD SPRING 2014 3 NH AUDUBON NEWS NH AUDUBON NEWS Putting All Your Eggs In One Basket (or Field Volunteer Opportunities not): The Ins and Outs of Clutch Size Nighthawk Watches In Birds Project Nighthawk volunteers help locate and monitor Common Nighthawks during the summer nesting season, primarily in the Concord, Keene (in partnership with AVEO), and Ossipee areas. Volunteers typically watch at one site from 8-9:30 pm. Time s spring approaches, all our behind the lower clutches commitment is variable, but we request a minimum commitment of two evenings from new volunteers. If you are interested, Abreeding birds are getting ready toward the equator, but to contact Becky Suomala, [email protected], 603-224-9909 x309. For more on Project Nighthawk, see the web page: for reproduction, with most laying date the data have not been http://www.nhaudubon.org/project-nighthawk eggs by the end of May. But have you conclusive. ever wondered why there is so much A third factor is longevity. If you are interested in any of the following, contact Pam Hunt, 224-9909 x328 or [email protected]. variation in the number of eggs (aka If a species has a relatively Chimney Swift Roost Counts clutch size) a species lays? Right here in short lifespan, it may be Grasshopper Sparrow nest by Pam Hunt In spring, when they’ve first returned from the winter and before they disperse to breed, Chimney Swifts spend the night in New Hampshire this can range from two important to maximize large communal roosts in a variety of chimneys. Swift populations are in decline across the Northeast for yet unknown reasons, (doves, hummingbirds, loons) to over a reproductive output by attempting to but one possibility is that these roosts are disappearing or of lower quality. You can help by looking for roosting swifts in your dozen (ducks, turkey). So why all this produce as many young as possible given neighborhood or at pre-determined locations. A training session will be arranged for some time in early May. variation? the previous constraints. And if a bird One thing that influences clutch size is likely to live a really long time (e.g., Marshbird Surveys is available food resources, which dictate decades), it may be best to produce only Educators: In recent years the numbers of Pied-billed Grebes at some traditional sites have appeared to go down – not good news for a State how much energy a bird can invest in 1-2 eggs each year (or even every other Threatened species. To try and get more current data, we hope to recruit volunteers to survey pre-selected wetland sites in 2014. producing eggs and then caring for the year). This is the strategy employed Register for Your Surveys will take place in May and June, and include other marsh birds such as bitterns and rails as well as grebes. For 2014, we’ll chicks that hatch. Here in the temperate by many seabirds (e.g., penguins, focus on sites south of the White Mountains. Interested participants will need access to a boat for almost all sites, be willing to zone, there is a massive flush of insects albatrosses) and large waterbirds (e.g., Complimentary do surveys near dawn or dusk, and have access to playback in the spring and summer that provides loons). By investing less each season, equipment (although we may have some things for loan). food for most breeding songbirds, and these species have less to lose if resources NH Audubon this is partially behind their larger clutch are low or predation high. Failure is Membership Olive-sided Flycatcher Blitz sizes compared to tropical relatives far less critical if you have many more Today! In June and July we will be surveying for Olive-sided (where resources are more uniformly years in which to attempt producing Flycatchers at sites in northern and western New dispersed throughout the year). In birds that single offspring needed to replace As a way to honor our history Hampshire. This species has been declining regionally, and such as ducks and chickens, whose yourself. and look to the future, we are our goal is to get a feel for how much its range has changed young can feed themselves soon after There are of course plenty of following the example of our in the 30 years since we completed the NH Breeding Bird hatching, there is less pressure on the exceptions! Hummingbirds almost founders who, in 1914, invited Atlas. Volunteers will need a car, a willingness to travel, parents for provisioning, thus allowing always lay only two eggs – even in teachers to join the Audubon and in some cases be able to survey challenging habitats. females to produce larger clutches. the north – despite being relatively Society of New Hampshire (as They will also need to visit assigned sites at least two, and The flip side to having a large clutch short-lived, and sandpipers worldwide, it was known at the time) for possibly three, times during the season. This will be a of eggs in a single nest is that it is a more whether temperate or tropical, migratory free. great opportunity to explore new parts of the state and see obvious target for a hungry predator. or resident, lay four. These are likely During our centennial year, we some beautiful habitats (and maybe even an Olive-sided Since laying eggs costs energy, smaller artifacts of evolutionary history that for are offering all New Hampshire Flycatcher!). Training will be provided in early June. clutches present less of an investment whatever reason haven’t changed much educators a one-year compli- risk to the female bird, saving her as birds have diversified in those groups, mentary membership! Swallow Colony Reporter resources for second attempts if the first but you can be sure that the ecological Teachers: Please visit www. Project Swallow CORE is looking for volunteers to track clutch is lost. Thus, if predation risk is pressures discussed above are still in nhaudubon.org/about/centen- active nesting colonies for four species: Barn Swallow, Cliff high, birds tend to lay fewer eggs at a operation, and perhaps subtly working nial/education to register for Swallow, Bank Swallow, and Purple Martin. You will need time. This is probably one reason that change behind the scenes. your free membership today! to be able to identify swallows and have a pair of binoculars. cavity nesters such as chickadees lay 6-10 –Pam Hunt You can monitor a local swallow colony or check on sites as eggs, while the similarly-sized warblers you travel in the state. For more on Swallow CORE, see the only lay 3-5 in their more exposed nests. web page: http://www.nhaudubon.org/swallow-core. Higher predator densities in the tropics have been suggested as another factor

4 SPRING 2014 NH AUDUBON AFIELD NH AUDUBON AFIELD SPRING 2014 5 PROGRAMS AND EVENTS: THE MCLANE CENTER NATURE STORE AT THE MCLANE CENTER

In addition to being a program center, the The Birds of New Hampshire McLane Center is home to NH Audubon’s by Allan R. Keith and Robert P. Fox central operations. It is located on the Silk The first book in 100 years to document the Farm Sanctuary in Concord. Sanctuary trails sightings of birds in New Hampshire is now are open dawn to dusk daily, as are the raptor available through the Nature Store for $55 mews. The Center and Nature Store are ($49.50 for members!). It is a must-have for GET READY FOR SPRING! open Monday–Friday, 9am–5pm and Saturday, any avid New Hampshire birder. The book 10am–4pm. Field Guides: Visit the Nature Store to check out our selection of field guides contains: 84 SILK FARM RD, CONCORD NH 03301 for your springtime explorations. Subjects range from mammals to mushrooms, 603-224-9909 [email protected] • First state-wide coverage of all species in 110 years birds to butterflies, and flowers to ferns! Also, be sure to pick up the brand new • Status and distribution for all 427 species, Sibley’s 2nd edition Guide to Birds, coming out March 11. Participants should bring a bag lunch. It is PROGRAMS seasons of occurrence and abundance recommended to bring a copy of Newcomb’s Spring Binocular Workshop • History of New Hampshire Christmas Optics: The Nature Store carries high quality Nikon and Vortex brand binoculars Wildflower Guide. Books can be purchased Saturday, March 22, 10–11:30am Counts ranging from $90-$650 great for spring birding. Also, save the date for our upcoming binocular from NH Audubon’s Nature Store. Members • Summary of New Hampshire Hawk- Are you overwhelmed by the variety of receive a 10% discount. workshop, March 22 and remember members will receive 15% off a new pair of optics at the watching data binoculars available these days? Are you still Pre-registration is required. Contact Ruth workshop (details on opposite page). • Location and identity of over 4,800 not sure what the difference is between “eye Smith at [email protected] or 224- museum specimens collected in the state relief” and “field of view?” Or are you just in 9909 ext. 313. Bird-Friendly Coffee: As you are flipping through the new the market for a new pair and not sure where • Summary of over 17,500 bird band field guide purchased from the Nature Store you can sip a deli- to start? Answers to these and many other ART EXHIBITS returns for New Hampshire questions will be revealed at this workshop • Breeding Bird Survey results since 1966 cious cup of organic Birds and Bean coffee. We are fully stocked with NH Audubon Senior Biologist Pamela BETSY JANEWAY: • Bibliography of over 1,200 titles covering with “made in the shade” bird friendly coffee in dark roast, medi- Hunt – and just in time to get everyone WATERCOLORS OLD AND NEW, the last 200 years um roast and French roast decaf. ready for spring birding. NEAR AND FAR Pam will cover all the binocular basics: price, Exhibit Open March-April Order online or using ease of use, and what the numbers mean. Opening Reception: Tuesday, March 4, the form below: Nature Store is open 6 days a week. Feel free to bring your own binoculars if 5-7pm Monday–Friday: 10–5 pm you have questions about them, or consider This exhibit is part of our Centennial getting a brand new pair based on what you Celebration Welcome Back Series. See page q Please send me The Birds of New Saturday: 10–4 pm learn! If the weather’s good, we’ll even take CE3 for more details on the exhibit. Hampshire. some for a test drive around the Center. Attendees receive 15% off a purchase of a BRIAN REILLY PHOTO EXHIBIT Name______pair of binoculars at the Nature Store! Exhibit Open May-June Address______Opening Reception: Tuesday May 6, 5-7 pm PROGRAMS AND EVENTS: AMOSKEAG FISHWAYS LEARNING CENTER Wildflower Identification for The Monadnock region contains many small City______Beginners ponds and lakes, and Brian was initially Located in Manchester on the beautiful winters. Learn all about the mammals, big Saturday, April 26, 9am–2pm State______Zip______drawn to photograph water birds when he Merrimack River, the Center is open year and small, that may have visited your yard Prepare for the spring season and NH round Monday-Saturday from 9am to 5pm. this winter when you were not looking! discovered a passion for common loons. By Phone______Audubon’s Birdathon/Bloomathon by During fish migration season (April 28–June using binoculars and telephoto lenses, Brian Signs of Spring learning to identify local wildflowers. Learn 14), the Center is open seven days a week. is able to watch every aspect of the birds’ Email______Thursday, April 3 some of the basics of plant characteristics lives while remaining at a respectful distance. Spring is in the Air! As days get longer and and about the ecology of spring ephemerals. Shipping Option (select one): FLETCHER ST • MANCHESTER, NH 03105 Brian’s observational and reporting skills and the weather gets warmer, life along the river The workshop will include a slideshow of q 603-626-FISH www.amoskeagfishways.org sensitive, technically improving photos of Media Mail (add $10) starts to wake up. Discover this for yourself the most common local wildflowers and use loons and the world in which they live and q Priority (add $15) as we explore the outdoors and search for Newcomb’s Wildflower Guide and the New breed have made him a valued asset for the FISHWAYS FUNDAYS Icy Insects the many signs of spring. England Wildflower Society’s “Go Botany” Loon Preservation Committee, for whom he Member/nonmember price (select one): Thursday, March 6 website as resources. Participants will go Spring Serenade currently serves as a volunteer and trustee. q $49.50, NH Audubon member SPRING SERIES Where have all the insects gone? How outdoors in search of early wildflowers to Thursday, April 17 q $55, non-member 9:30-11am or 12:30-2pm will they make it through this chilly practice new skills. Who is making all that noise in your Programs are for ages four to five season? We’ll explore, play games and Instructor: Melissa Coppola works with the backyard? And what is all that noise about TOTAL: ______accompanied by an adult and include discover what insects do in the winter. New Hampshire Natural Heritage Bureau anyway? Discover which animals are calling Make your check payable to ‘NH Audubon’ outdoor exploration and indoor craft which locates and facilitates the protection of Mammals, Mammals Everywhere! in spring and why. We’ll try our luck at and mail with form to: Attn Nature Store, making. Cost: $8 per family. Pre-registration New Hampshire’s rare plants and exemplary Thursday, March 20 mimicking some of their songs and make McLane Center, 84 Silk Farm Rd, Concord, with payment required. natural communities, Melissa has been Lots and lots of furry friends are active an animal call to take home! NH 03301 botanizing for over 17 years. all year long, even in the coldest NH

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Celebrate May Day! Family Fishtravaganza and fish fun…lots of fishy fun! Cost: $3 per 1914 - 2014 Thursday, May 1 May 16, 7- 8:30 pm person or $6 per family (Fee does not cover May is finally here, with longer days, Some of our Merrimack River fish travel extended family). No registration required. sunlight, flowers and new life! Celebrate this amazing distances. Find out which go the All about River Raptors wonderful season with us at the Fishways as farthest as we go on a tour, play fish games, Saturday, May 17, 11 am – 3 pm we engage in traditional May Day festivities, and look for migrating fish in our ladder. Everyone is noticing all kinds of raptors games and crafts. We’ll even make a May Flower Power flying over the Merrimack River, a common basket to take home to surprise a friend. May 30, 7-8 pm sight in the Manchester city landscape Fin-Tastic Voyage Why are flowers so colorful and beautiful? that we love so well. What are they doing Thursday, May 15 How do they grow? Discover these answers in a city and where are they nesting and FROM HATS TO HABITATS Join us for a fun program to learn about and more as we search for sprouts, plants raising their young? Do they ever interact some Merrimack River fish. We’ll discover and flowers around the Fishways. with each other? We will work together to what makes fish special and which fish answer these questions and more by looking make a long journey from the ocean to the SPECIAL EVENTS through telescopes, watching a slideshow, New Hampshire Audubon marks its Centennial this year. The many triumphs and accom- Merrimack River each spring. We’ll even plishments achieved over these years in education, research, conservation, sanctuaries and Predators of the Sky: Live Birds of and viewing live raptors up close! Let’s look for them underwater in our fish ladder. celebrate their recovery, the 100 years of NH legislative action are a tribute to the dedicated effort of thousands of women and men who Prey shared a common vision. This is the second installment in a four-part history of the orga- Amphibians All Around Saturday, March 8 Audubon working to protect our birds and nization. If you missed reading about the first 25 years, please visit www.nhaudubon.org/ Thursday, May 29 Two Presentations: Noon – 1:30 pm and our own efforts to learn and conserve river about/centennial/history. What is an amphibian and which ones live 2 – 3:30 pm raptors everywhere! Cost: $3 per person or $ 6 per family (Fee does not cover extended nearby? What are they doing in spring? Tom Ricardi and his spectacular birds of family). No registration required. Amphibians abound this time of year! Meet prey will be our guests. A regal golden eagle Recovery and New Momentum: 1939-1964 some live frogs and salamanders, discover and a very playful turkey vulture will be two World Fish Migration Day their special qualities and try your luck at of the birds on hand for close-up viewing! Saturday, May 24, 11 am – 3 pm imilar to the weather in the month of behind this re-birth were Professor mimicking frog calls. Learn about the great work done by Tom’s The Amoskeag Fishways and locations March, the second quarter century of Charles F. Jackson of the University organization, the Massachusetts Bird of around the world celebrate the very first S FAMILY FRIDAY NIGHTS the Audubon Society of New Hampshire of New Hampshire (President), Doug Prey Rehabilitation Facility, which cares “World Fish Migration Day,” calling (as it was known in those years) came Wade, Naturalist for Dartmouth College for injured birds and operates a successful attention to migratory fish and healthy Programs are for all ages and focus on the in like a lamb as the damaging effects of (Secretary, and Editor of the Bulletin), captive breeding program. For all ages! oceans and rivers everywhere. We will Merrimack River and its watershed. Cost: $10 per person, $25 per family (Fee have fish migration games, inquiry and art the Great Depression and World War and Louise Forsyth (Treasurer). Cost: $5 per family. Pre-registration with does not cover extended family). Pre- projects that will help to better understand II were dauntingly manifest. But the In 1947 Ludlow Griscom, payment required. registration with payment required. migratory fish, here and abroad. Water strong foundation of the Society, built acknowledged Dean of 20th century The Hunters and the Hunted Learn to Fly Fish connects us. Our goal is to educate the by the likes of Rev. Manley Townsend birding, spoke at the Annual Meeting March 14, 7- 8 pm Wednesdays, March 19, 26 and April 2, 9 public and celebrate healthy fish and and General Wheeler (See “The First which was a collaboration with the New What is the difference between a predator (Four consecutive sessions), 6 - 8 pm productive river ecosystems. Play and learn 25 Years” in the NH Audubon Afield, Hampshire Academy of Science. A more and a prey animal? We’ll investigate the at this worldwide event along the Merrimack Learn all about equipment, how to tie a fly, Winter 2013-2014) was resilient enough academic approach to bird life became adaptations animals use to find food and River, here at the FISHWAYS! strategies and techniques, where fish live and that the organization persevered. It noticeable in the Bulletin, replacing the stay safe. Cost: FREE! No registration required. what they eat. Members of Trout Unlimited awakened from its doldrums in the original sentimental attitude. Finding their Way certified in the ‘Let’s Go Fishing’ program 1950s and positively roared into the The post-WW II economic struggles March 28, 7- 8 pm will be our instructors. For Beginner and Celebrate the 2014 Fish 1960s, like the proverbial lion. of the organization continued and the Discover how migrating creatures find their Intermediate Even though it took a few years for quality of the Bulletin declined so the way back to NH. Compare their navigation Cost: $5 per person Season! skills to yours through games and activities. Pre-registration with payment required. The Amoskeag Fishways celebrates the that re-invigoration to become obvious, Society ceased publication in 1949. 2014 fish migration season April 28th the seeds were sown at the 30th Annual But hope grew, as did the membership, Frog Songs 2014 Fish Festival April 18, 7- 8 pm Featuring Dash and Splash! through June 14th. We will be open Meeting in 1943 when the Directors from its nadir of 120 in 1943 to 346 in seven days a week, 9 am-5 pm. The The calls of frogs and toads are loud Tuesday, April 29, 10 am – 2 pm voted to resume publishing the Bulletin 1944. The Annual Meeting in 1948 “… center will be closed Monday, May 26th, and clear this time of year. Observe real Line up and cheer on US Fish and (the Society’s only publication), broaden marked an important turning point in in observance of Memorial Day. Walk- amphibians and explore the reasons they Wildlife biologists when they deliver adult the Society’s approach from birds to the history of the Society…” as written in visitors are always welcome and sing in the spring. broodstock salmon, or other trout species, to include all wildlife, set up educational by Pauline Merrill in her “History of the guided fish season tours are offered to stock our fish ladder at 10 am. The wild fish Fabulous Fish groups of 10-30 participants. For more programs, hold meetings around the Audubon Society of New Hampshire. have yet to swim up the Merrimack River, May 2, 7- 8 pm information about fish season, special state and start a membership drive. Part III” (NH Audubon Quarterly, Vol. but the ladder is running and there will be What makes a fish a fish? Have you ever events or to schedule a tour, call 626- They also elected an entirely new slate 17, #4, October 1964). The Directors fish in our window for up-close and personal really looked at a fish up close? Give it a try FISH. of Directors. Basically they started over, revised the original Constitution and A CENTURY OF viewing while we wait. Fish stocking will be as we learn about the amazing and special followed by fish crafts, fish hats, fish games, almost from scratch! The driving forces CONSERVATION features of these underwater creatures. Continued on next page 8 SPRING 2014 NH AUDUBON AFIELD CENTENNIAL EDITION SPRING 2014 CE1 FROM HATS TO HABITATS: A CENTURY OF CONSERVATION FROM HATS TO HABITATS: A CENTURY OF CONSERVATION

In 1958, there was a major effort to draft, support, Welcome Back Series Improving Bird Identification 1939–1964 and successfully pass a Birds of Prey protection bill. It Skills with Bob Quinn was the Society’s first major legislative success at the State Tuesday and Thursday evenings beginning Songs and Tales of the Earth level. Before this law was enacted it was still legal to shoot As part of NH Audubon’s centennial April 15 the objectives of the Society, the first Newsletter came out in Performance by Steve Schuch celebration, we have invited some This introductory class is ideal for people June 1948, and Tudor Richards became a Vice President. No hawks and owls! The first opposition to a highway through Saturday, March 15, 7:00 pm former staff and volunteers to keenly interested in birds who want to one knew at that time that Tudor’s impact on the Society would Franconia Notch was raised, an issue that would become Member Fee: $15/adult, $8/child; Non-member conduct programs and display improve their identification skills. It’s a significant in the next 25 years. Fee: $18/adult, $10/child, be one of the biggest stories of the subsequent 35 years. In great way to prepare for participating in In 1961, the Bear Brook Nature Center was established exhibits. We are thrilled to have Tickets at www.nhaudubon.org 1949, Tudor became the Editor of The Newsletter, and the first NH Audubon’s Birdathon/Bloomathon. them returning to share their skills McLane Center concerns over “the insecticide problem” (DDT) were voiced by in cooperation with what was then the State Department During field and indoor lessons, you will and continued interest in NH Award-winning musician and storyteller Steve the Society, just one example of the forward-thinking actions the of Recreation. The acquisition of the Pondicherry property learn how to identify at least 100 of our was the biggest story in 1962 and 1963 and there were Audubon. Schuch will return to the McLane Center for a most common birds. Participants will gain Society would take. performance of songs and stories inspired by his The pace of growth and change with the Society accelerated successful land acquisition efforts to protect salt marshes, the following knowledge: Art Exhibit: Watercolors Old passion for the natural world. Steve is classically • Simple techniques for identifying birds tremendously in the 1950s and these are just a few of the thanks to the hard work of Robert Rathbone. Regular radio and New, Near and Far by trained on violin, an accomplished singer/song • Identification clues based on habitats highlights. In 1950, Claire Batchelder was appointed Education programs featured the Society, and Jane Grant became Betsy Janeway writer, guitarist, author and storyteller. He has membership Chairperson beginning her long tenure with • Why birds sing and the importance of Director. Claire’s tenure in this position was one of the most March-April delighted audiences across the U.S and Europe, vocalizations the organization. productive and successful volunteer efforts ever by one individual McLane Center’s PSNH Room fusing Celtic/Folk roots with contemporary • Where and how to find birds in the organization’s history. After 14 years, she received a A big 50th anniversary celebration in 1964 featured Opening Reception: Tuesday, March 4, influences. • Why birds and bird watching matter 5-7pm national award in recognition of her educational work with the Roger Tory Peterson as the guest speaker with a turnout of His performance will include songs he • How to use and choose binoculars Betsy Janeway is honored to be part of composed while serving as a naturalist for NH Society. 300 people! For the first 50 years of its history, everything • How to use and choose bird guides had been accomplished by volunteers! Membership NH Audubon’s Centennial Celebration Audubon in the mid-1980s. Audience members In 1951, The Newsletter evolved into New Hampshire Bird Instructor: Bob Quinn of Merlin Wildlife had expanded to 835, membership dues were $3.00, by showcasing her watercolor landscapes. will be inspired by toe-tapping tunes, sing-along News with Barbara Richard’s hand-drawn Common Loon on the Painting outdoors at places she knows songs and beautiful ballads. To learn more and Tours is one of NH’s leading birders and 28 statewide field trips were run, and 150 acres of salt cover. This began an era of “…improved and systematic amateur and loves, and on her travels, she is not hear samples of Steve’s music visit his website: workshop leaders. He leads trips for birding ornithology…” (Merrill). All bird records were compiled and marsh had been protected. Pondicherry was dedicated searching for perfection in her work as www.nightheron.com enthusiasts locally and across the globe. Bob published seasonally in systematic fashion in New Hampshire as a Sanctuary and Wildlife Refuge with a management much as to capture a memory in mood, Thanks to event sponsor Endicott Furniture has received the Goodhue-Elkins award for his “outstanding contributions to the study Bird News with Vera Hebert as records editor, “…forming agreement with the NH Fish and Game Department. light and colors. She has painted at most of Concord, www.endicottfurniture.com of NH birds.” Bob was a staff member what is probably the most permanently valuable feature of the The Society continued to be forward-thinking with more of the NH Audubon sanctuaries. Betsy has had a long history with A Walk Back in Time: The Secrets of from 1977-1986 working on sanctuaries, Society’s publication…” (Merrill). Vera’s modest initial efforts concern expressed about DDT. NH Audubon as a volunteer, serving on Cellar Holes with Adair Mulligan conservation and education. at making the data more consistent and systematic would The Audubon Society reached its 50th year with tremendous accomplishments and momentum just as the committees and the Board of Trustees, Thursday, April 3, 7pm Fee: $35/members, $43/non-members per ultimately result in the impressive and important publication we and helping with the NH Breeding national environmental movement was about to begin. McLane Center session or $175/$215 for all six sessions. have today, New Hampshire Bird Records. New Hampshire Bird Bird Atlas. A birdwatcher since she –Robert A. Quinn Northern New England is full of reminders Price includes National Geographic’s News continued to be published until 1961 when it became the was nine, she lives in Webster with her of past lives: stone walls, old foundations, or Birding Essentials by Jonathan Alderfer New Hampshire Audubon Quarterly. husband, Harold, on an old farm where a century old lilac out in the woods. Adair and Jon L. Dunn. An all-day field trip in In 1953, Tudor was elected President of NH Audubon and birds and wildlife flourish, sheep graze Mulligan explores how to discover clues of May will be a separate charge. Sessions can he was also Vice-Chair of the NH Natural Resources Council, the pastures, swimming is good in the the past that remain and to piece together a be taken on an a la carte basis if desired. formed in 1952 by a consortium of dozens of environmental Blackwater River, and meals come fresh rich story from those remnants. She will help The majority of the proceeds from this from her garden. groups. The Rideout Sanctuary (acquired in 1930) was sold to participants gain a new way of looking at the course will go toward the NH Audubon woods to decipher past land uses and discover Centennial celebration. Limited to 15 the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests and the how landscapes have changed through time. participants. proceeds put into a fund for sanctuaries. NH Audubon opened Adair has a deep curiosity about the natural Schedule (Each class will include in-class its first office in Concord courtesy of Claire and Leon Batchelder and cultural history of northern New England. instruction and field exploration.) who generously shared part of their office space with the Society. She has written several books and contributes Tuesday, April 15, 6:30-8pm The first field trip as part of an Annual Meeting was to regional publications. Adair is currently the Thursday, April 17, 6-9pm Executive Director of the Hanover Conservancy. conducted to the Isles of Shoals in 1953 and the next year, Tuesday, April 22, 6-9pm She was NH Audubon’s Education Director Kimball Elkins was named the first Field Trips Chairman. He Thursday, April 24, 6-9pm from 1981-1985 and previously served as a loon greatly expanded the field trip program. Tudor’s Annotated Tuesday, May 13, 6-9pm biologist and naturalist. List of the Birds of New Hampshire was published and a joint Thursday, May 15, 6-9pm There is no fee for NH Audubon and NH Fish and Game Department bird field Saturday Field Trip, May, date TBD (either this program. Funding local or Star Island) checklist was issued in 1954. In 1957, membership reached 500 is provided by a grant and a bequest of $34,000 came from Eleanor E. Whitcomb, by from the New Hampshire Pre-registration is required. See www. far the largest received by the Society at the time. Kimball Elkins on a whale watch field trip. Humanities Council. nhaudubon.org for complete schedule, requirements, and registration info. CE2 SPRING 2014 CENTENNIAL EDITION CENTENNIAL EDITION SPRING 2014 CE3 FROM HATS TO HABITATS: A CENTURY OF CONSERVATION PROGRAMS AND EVENTS: MASSABESIC AUDUBON CENTER

Located on a historic farm site, the Center is THE NATURE CAFÉ NH Audubon’s 100th Summer Camp in Our Centennial Year! bordered by 130 acres of wildlife sanctuary that encompasses a diverse array of upland habitats Fridays, 7-8:30 pm Anniversary Poster • MASSABESIC & MCLANE CENTER LOCATIONS and includes more than five miles of trails that Cost: $5 per person, Free for lead to Lake Massabesic. Contest • PROGRAMS FOR CHILDREN AGES 4-12 Massabesic Volunteers • LEADERS-IN-TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES FOR AGES 13-15 Come join us once per month at the 26 AUDUBON WAY • AUBURN, NH 03032 beautiful Massabesic Audubon Center To celebrate the 100 years NH Audu- Registration opens March 3 for NH Audubon members, 603-668-2045 [email protected] to enjoy coffee, tea, hot chocolate, bon has spent helping protect NH’s March 10 for non-members. Visit www.nhaudubon.org. and delicious desserts while you learn wildlife and environment, students ADULT PROGRAMS equipment, mixing and pouring into a mold. about our natural environment. across the state are invited to enter Session 1: June 23-July 3 (9 days) *last Session 4: July 21-31 (9 days) Watch a recently processed batch being cut March 21: The Seven Sleepers our Poster Contest to show us how Bluebird Natural History and Trail day of school is June 16 Concord/June Wilderness Ways into bars using a guitar string. Take home Deep in their winter burrows, New Monitoring 2014 they can help too. a finished soap bar from a previously cured Hampshire’s seven types of hibernators 12 Manchester How do plants and animals survive when the Saturday, March 8, 10 am-2 pm batch. are preparing to wake up with the The theme is “How I can help NH’s Histories Mysteries weather is inclement or food is in shortage? Cost: FREE spring thaw. Seasoned wildlife wildlife and environment.” Categories Unlock the ancient mysteries of Earth’s What could we learn from them that could Coastal Birding Leader: Logan Young, Volunteer biologist Eric Orff will discuss what are grades K-2 and 3-5. Entries must history during this session. Explore help us survive? Survival is what it’s all about! Wednesday, May 21, 9 am-2:30 pm Coordinator keeps these animals alive while at be submitted by March 15. Win- the landscape through the lens of We welcome back our most popular session Cost: $6 M/$9 NM per trip Get involved in a citizen science project to death’s door in the wintertime. From a paleontologist, glaciologist, and complete with fire and shelter building. Leader: JoAnn O’Shaughnessy ners will be displayed this spring at research the status of declining NH species jumping mice to bears, learn about archaeologist. Prepare to get down and This session is filled with adventures aimed Amoskeag Fishways, Massabesic, and like Eastern Bluebirds and Tree Swallows. Enjoy birding the coast with Audubon how extreme hibernation has to be dirty as we search the fields and forests for at improving our ways in the woods. Learn McLane centers. Morning workshop focuses on the bluebird’s trustee JoAnn O’Shaughnessy. Meet at the to survive our winter and hear Eric’s evidence of the past that may help us learn how to not get lost and what to do if you do natural history, conservation status and how Hampton Beach State Park parking lot at stories from the forest after 40 years of See our website for details and sub- about the future. Begin a summer long get lost. to become a bluebird trail monitor. In the 9 and carpool from there to coastal hot field work in NH’s woods. mission guidelines. celebration of NH Audubon’s 100th year Session 5: August 4-8 (5 days) spots. Lunch is not provided, but the group afternoon become oriented to our bluebird April 4: Tracking Ospreys reveling in the natural history that NH Water Wizards trail, clean out and make minor repairs to will stop at a local restaurant to cap off the Audubon has helped protect. morning’s adventure. Meet at 7:45 am in Learn about Project OspreyTrack with Ever wonder where our water comes from? boxes as well as look for any early bluebirds. Iain MacLeod, a multi-year project the Massabesic Audubon parking lot if you Session 2: July 7-11 (5 days) Join us as we examine the intricate nature Volunteer monitors adopt a part or a whole using GPS trackers to follow Ospreys APRIL VACATION want to carpool with other participants to Native and Natural Ways of our local water shed. Follow a drop of field and contribute about one hour each from their nests in New Hampshire CAMP Hampton. Ever thought about how nature recycles? water as it falls from the sky and makes week from April to August to monitor to their wintering grounds in South McLane Center: April 21-25 During this session we attempt to better its journey through the water shed. We activity in our 100+ nest boxes. Water, Weather, Climate, and America. Hear the amazing and Massabesic Center: April 28-May 2 understand the rhythmic ways of the natural explore the habitat surrounding Great Nature Poetry Community Workshop sometimes tragic stories of ten NH For Children Ages 6-10 world. Examine seasonal changes through Turkey Pond and Lake Massabesic in search Saturday, April 5, 2-3:30 pm Thursday, May 22, 6-8 pm Ospreys, including Art, a male Osprey All-day sessions: 9am–4pm the eyes of a Native American of plants and animals. Cost: $5 suggested donation Cost: FREE from Bridgewater, NH who travelled Member Price: $42/day with story-telling and games. Of course, we will find Leader: SNHU What is the connection between NH’s 5,000 miles to his winter home in Nonmember Price: $52/day Brazil and returned to his nest in April Make recycled art using natural plenty of opportunity to The Romantic Era in Britain was an declining moose populations, NH’s 2013 to be greeted by a film crew and SPRING CELEBRATION! materials and other repurposed experience the cooling influential literary period famous for nature skinny shrimp catch, and the state’s bird objects. effects of water with populations? Join conservation planners, reporters. The program will include an New Hampshire Audubon is poetry. Come listen to students from various water games. wildlife enthusiasts, and neighbors in this up-close encounter with a live Osprey. celebrating its 100th year. Join us for Session 3: July 14-18 Southern New Hampshire University’s workshop. Learn about the condition a week-long celebration honoring this (5 days) Session 6: August 11- Romantic Literature class recite nature May 16 (rain date of May 23): of these species, what is being done to Night Hike under the Stars historic milestone while examining the Winged Wonders 15 (5 days) poems by Romantics such as Charlotte manage it, and how you can help! Everyone You may be familiar with the seasonal changes taking place around What’s all this buzzing around? Earth Heroes Smith, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor interested in wildlife is welcome, bring a co- Massabesic trails, but have you ever our sanctuaries. It’s that time of the summer What does it mean to be Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John when flying creatures are an Earth Hero? Most of Keats. A brief discussion will follow the worker, friend, neighbor or family member! walked them at night? Join Naturalist Angie Krysiak for a guided hike of • Crafts everywhere. Time to break out us know about reduce, readings. Light refreshments will be served. Intro to Pelagic Wildlife a portion of the Massabesic trails • Birding the bug nets and binoculars reuse, recycle. But what Saturday, May 24, 3 - 4 pm Soap Making Workshop to experience the hidden sights and • Vernal pool exploration and start exploring our wildlife else can we do to help Cost: $5 (free to those attending Pelagic Saturday, April 19, 1-3 pm sounds of the nocturnal forest. We’ll sanctuaries in search of the take care of our planet? Trip - see next page) • Live animal presentations Cost: $15 M/$25 NM, plus $5 materials fee look for woodcocks and listen for insects and birds that zip Learn about eco-friendly Leader: Jon Woolf • Hiking/Exploration Leader: Barbara Benton, Little Cabin Crafts frogs, and hope for some bats or around the sky. We might see practices that can be Mark Karl Come join us for a demonstration of Come see a brief slideshow about some of owls. Afterwards members of the • Games evidence of flying mammals as well. Ever used at home or in the making hand-crafted soap using all natural the wildlife you might see just off NH’s NH Astronomical Society will lead a wonder what NH Audubon has done over forest to help us lessen ingredients and essential oils. Follow the coast. We’ll teach you how to identify some Sky Watch for a close up experience VISIT WWW.NHAUDUBON.ORG the past 100 years to help protect the flying our negative impact on the planet while entire process: the selection of recipe and of our common pelagic birds as well as a few with the stars and planets above us. FOR COMPLETE DETAILS AND species that inhabit our state? Spend time discovering ways increase our positive. Build ingredients, the choice of utensils and of our commonly sighted whale species. Telescopes will be provided; bring CAMP REGISTRATION. with our live birds while you learn about this a solar oven and harness the sun’s energy to your flashlights. and more. cook some snacks! PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED FOR ALL PROGRAMS. CALL 603-668-2045 TO REGISTER. CE4 SPRING 2014 CENTENNIAL EDITION NH AUDUBON AFIELD SPRING 2014 9 PROGRAMS AND EVENTS: MASSABESIC AUDUBON CENTER LOON CENTER NATURE TOUR: Pelagic Trip Staying Found Workshop populations. Using mist nets to catch birds, ABOUT THE LOON Boreal Birds and Wildlife of Monday, May 26, 8 am - 5 pm Saturday, March 22, 10am-noon Jay will ID, band, and record our findings CENTER NH’s North Country –With a Cost: $70 M/$90 NM Cost: FREE for the national database. Learn how to Special Focus on NHA’s Wildlife Join NH Audubon aboard MV Granite State Leader: New England K-9 Search and identify species, sex, and age with a variety of The Loon Center is open Sanctuaries* as we explore Jeffreys Ledge, 20 miles off Rescue live subjects! Monday through Saturday the New Hampshire coast. Spend all day at This FREE workshop is an educational from 9am–5pm. Enjoy the August 23-27, 2014 sea, searching the Ledge for pelagic seabirds, program with a presentation by New PRESCHOOL PROGRAMS educational displays and Leaders: Phil Brown (NHA’s Director of Land award-winning videos, as whales, dolphins, and anything else that England K-9 Search & Rescue for kids (age WEE WONDERS Management) and happens to cross our course. Participants approx 4-10) and their families. Learn how well as the trails on the Bob Quinn (Merlin Wildlife Tours) meet at Rye Harbor at 7:30 for check in. to avoid becoming lost and what to do if Wednesdays, 10-11:30 am Markus Wildlife Sanctuary, This special nature tour will focus on boreal you become lost. Meet some of NE K-9 Cost: $9 M /$12 NM (per adult/child pair) which are open from dawn and migrants birds, other wildlife, and FAMILY PROGRAMS Search and Rescue team-both the people and Leader: Kim Murphy, Naturalist until dusk daily for walking, several of the most accessible and fascinating the canines! Registration is required-please Discover the changing seasons through snowshoeing, or cross-coun- The Sweet Taste of Spring Fundraiser landscapes of NH’s ‘North Country’. With contact Wanda Rice at (603)432-7840 hands-on activities, songs, crafts, stories, and try skiing. Then stop into Saturday, March 15 NHA’s milestone Centennial celebration in (before 8pm) or [email protected]. outdoor discovery. Please dress to be outside the Loon’s Feather Gift Shop for unique holiday and birthday gifts! Program 9:30 or 11; Breakfast 9-noon and wear appropriate footwear. Children mind, this tour is designed to include NHA- Cost: Program and Breakfast: Individuals Animal Calls and Sounds must be accompanied by an adult. Classes The Loon Center is a self-directed and self-funded constituent organization of NH specific conservation and historical themes. At $10 M/$15 NM; Families $25 M/$35 NM Saturday, March 29, 10 am-noon are for ages 4-6. Visit www.nhaudubon.org Audubon located on the 200-acre Markus Wildlife Sanctuary. The Loon Preser- many of our locations, we will highlight the Cost: Individuals $9 M/ $11 NM; Families Join us for a maple sugaring celebration for more detailed class descriptions. vation Committee exists to restore and maintain a healthy population of loons history of NH Audubon’s role in conserving and NH Audubon Fundraiser breakfast. $18 M/ $21 NM throughout New Hampshire; to monitor the health and productivity of loon popu- and stewarding these special places such as East Attend a 1/2 hour program to learn all about Leaders: Angie Krysiak and Colby Sabutis SPRING SENSATIONS: We use our five lations as sentinels of environmental quality; and to promote a greater understand- Inlet and the Connecticut River Headwaters the amazing process of turning sap into Ever wondered who was making those senses to perceive the world around us. ing of loons and the natural world. All gift shop proceeds benefit Common Loon in Pittsburg, and NHA’s own Pondicherry syrup and join us for a homemade pancake strange sounds you hear in the woods at Come see, hear, feel, smell and touch our research and preservation in New Hampshire. and Dahl Wildlife Sanctuaries. The tour breakfast with real NH made syrup and night? We’ll explore some of the calls and way through the natural world this spring. will include extensive time in Pittsburg live music! Help support NH Audubon’s sounds that a variety of mammals and other March 12, Whiskers and Hands LEES MILLS ROAD • MOULTONBOROUGH, NH 03254 (NH’s border town to Canada) and at Lake 603-476-5666 animals, programs, and mission. Bring your animals make, then we’ll go for a walk to the March 26, Sweet Taste of Spring Umbagog, where we will take a pontoon boat friends! Breakfast is first come, first served. lake to test out some artificial animal calls. April 9, Sounds of Spring tour in search of waterbirds. Bird conservation April 23 (preschool classs only), Colors and Cheese and Garlic Workshop themes of the tour will include changes in Shapes both the landscape and avifauna of this unique 100th Anniversary Earth Saturday, May 17, 1-3pm NEWFOUND AUDUBON CENTER region of the state over the past 100 years. As Day Festival: Tread Lightly Leaders: Barbara Benton and Angie Krysiak BABIES OF SPRING: Animals spend Cost: Individuals $15 M/$18 NM; Families spring raising their young, so that they can an added bonus, all proceeds of this special Saturday, April 12, 10am-3pm $20 M/$30 NM (Cost covers food) grow big and strong before the next hard ABOUT tour will directly support NH Audubon’s Cost: Drop in Fee Individuals $5, Families Learn how to make your own mozzarella winter arrives. Join us for this late spring NEWFOUND wildlife sanctuaries throughout the state*. $15 cheese in this tasty workshop. Then we’ll session to learn about the babies of spring! AUDUBON Visit www.nhaudubon.org/programs/travel Join NH Audubon and the Student talk about garlic-how to grow it, harvest May 14, Eggs Left Behind CENTER for complete details or contact Phil Brown Conservation Association as we it, and the many reasons it is good for May 28, Water Babies at [email protected] or (603) 224- celebrate both Earth Day and NHA’s you! We’ll put the two together and make June 11, Metamorphosing Monarchs Located on the beau- 9909x334 for pricing, more information or 100th anniversary. We’ll have bird some delicious treats. Small kits will be tiful northern shore of to book your spot. Space is limited! banding demonstrations, live animals, a available for $20 with instructions and HOMESCHOOL PROGRAMS Newfound Lake, the “Lorax” dance performance, drawings to ingredients (except milk) to make 2 batches JUNIOR EXPLORERS Newfound Audubon Don’t miss this exciting once-in-a- win prizes, ‘build your own birdhouse’ of mozzarella. Ages 10 and up, please. Center is comprised of Centennial opportunity! Wednesdays, 10-11:30 am kits for sale, games, mural painting, three wildlife sanctu- MAPS Bird Banding Cost: $9 M /$12 NM (per adult/child pair) crafts, scavenger hunts, live music, and aries: Paradise Point May, dates TBA Leader: Angie Krysiak marshmallow roasting at our campfire. Nature Center, Ash Below: Male spruce grouse displaying by Bob Quinn Cost: FREE We’ll explore the natural world with live See live raptors from the McLane Center Cottage at Hebron Leader: Jay Barry, Volunteer Educator and animals, nature walks, and hands-on and a number of Massabesic’s own live Marsh Sanctuary and Bear Mountain Sanctuary. The trails at all three sanctuaries licensed bird bander for 40 years activities that follow a different natural are open year-round to bird watchers and hikers, Nordic skiers and snowshoers, and animals up close. Lunch will be available Watch the fascinating banding process theme each day. Be prepared to be outside! all-around nature lovers. Paradise Point and Hebron Marsh extend to the water’s for sale from A Market. Visit booths by a from capture to release. The summer Classes are for ages 7-12. Parents may stay edge, allowing visitors to experience more of Newfound Lake’s habitat, while Bear variety of earth-friendly businesses and MAPS (Monitoring Avian Productivity and and participate. Mountain’s hillside habitat exemplifies the beauty of New Hampshire’s woodlands. organizations and learn tips and tricks to Survivorship) program will help provide With sanctuary trails open all year long and exciting summertime program offer- Class themes and dates are same as listed reduce your impact on the earth. Learn critical information relating to the ecology, ings, there is always something to do. how you can make a difference today conservation, and management of North above for preschool, except where noted. and every day. American landbird populations, and the Visit www.nhaudubon.org for more detailed NORTH SHORE ROAD • HEBRON, NH 03222 factors responsible for changes in their class descriptions. 603-744-3516 PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED FOR ALL PROGRAMS. CALL 603-668-2045 TO REGISTER. 10 SPRING 2014 NH AUDUBON AFIELD NH AUDUBON AFIELD SPRING 2014 11 CHAPTER HAPPENINGS CHAPTER HAPPENINGS

AMMONOOSUC Sightings in prior years have included MASCOMA Boston Lot woods across from Wilder Dam. – in an exciting illustration of the fact that Field Trip: Spring Warbler Walk in Northern Pintail, American Widgeon, Snow Meet in the parking lot. To be led by Gail absolutely nothing in nature is “ordinary.” Hinsdale Program: The Ordinary Extraordinary Field Trip: Spring Migratory Goose and Gadwall. Meet at the McLane “Pip” Richens. Co-sponsored by the Harris Center for Saturday, May 10, 7 am – noon Junco Waterfowl May 10 is International Migratory Bird Audubon Center. Contact Bob Quinn at Field Trip: “Feathered Fridays” Conservation Education, the Monadnock Wednesday, March 19, 7pm Saturday, March 22, 8-11am Day. Why not celebrate with a trip to a 746-2535 or [email protected]. May 2, 9, 16, 23 & 30, 7-10am Conservancy, New Hampshire Audubon, A new documentary film from Indiana Norwich, VT perennial migration hot spot, along the Field Trip: Merrimack River Union Village Dam, Thetford Center, VT and the Monadnock Center for History University and funded by the National This outing will head north from the Connecticut River in Hinsdale? The walk Waterfowl and Culture. For more information, contact Science Foundation designed to engage, Ledyard Bridge on the VT side of the Each Friday morning in May, we’ll survey will start at the Hinsdale setbacks where Saturday, April 5, 7 am Brett Amy Thelen at [email protected] entertain, and inspire audiences of all Connecticut River searching the river and its the woods and fields in VT’s Union Village breeding Marsh Wrens keep company with Late March and early April bring the highest or (603) 358-2065. backgrounds. The feature-length film is adjacent fields and woods for waterfowl and Dam Park. Meet inside the gate at the migrating warblers, gnatcatchers, flycatchers, diversity of northbound ducks to the Capital Field Trip: Owl Prowl at the Willard comprised of eight chapters that highlight early arriving spring migrants. Meet in the entrance across from E.C. Brown’s Nursery possible rails and maybe even a Least Bittern! region, so this is a great time to see what’s Pond Wildlife Sanctuary, Antrim past and present biological research on one “Park and Ride” lot adjacent to the VT side in Thetford Center. To be led by Becky Cook The walk will continue along the causeway out there – and maybe turn up a few early Saturday, March 22, 7-8pm of the most common and abundant – yet of the Ledyard Bridge to form car pools. To and Ted Boze. and out to the bluffs overlooking Lake land bird migrants. Meet at the McLane Join the NH Young Birders Club for a short amazing and diverse groups of songbirds in be led by George Clark. Field Trip: Evening Birdwalk Wantastiquet where possible birds include Center at 7:00 am, and bring a scope if you walk on a March evening in woods outside North America, the Juncos. Fridays, May 16 & 23, 5:30-7:30 pm Orchard Oriole, Bald Eagle, and Bank have one. Contact: Pam Hunt at 753-9137 Field Trip: Woodcock Walks of Hancock. Barred Owl, Saw-whet Owl, Union Village Dam, Thetford Center, VT Swallow. Meet at Prospect St boat ramp Program: Turtles, Amphibians and or [email protected]. Wed., April 9 and Thurs., April 10, 7:15- and Great Horned Owl are all possibilities. Vernal Pools Take an early evening stroll through Union parking area in Hinsdale at 7 am. Contact 9pm We’ll gather inside the Willard Pond cottage Wednesday, April 16, 7pm Field Trip: Woodcock Walk Village Dam Park as we seek out spring Cliff at [email protected]. Hanover, NH after our prowl to share hot chocolate and a Thursday, April 24, 7:30 pm migrants. Meet inside the gate at the Join us for a fascinating evening program These two early evening explorations hope to warm toasty fire. Meet in the Willard Pond Field Trip: Annual Surry Birdathon Meet Rob Woodward for his annual entrance across from E.C. Brown’s Nursery and a visit to a vernal pool with Mike observe the woodcock’s spectacular mating parking lot at 7:00 pm. This event is co- Sunday, May 18, 7 am – noon EVENING walk in search of American in Thetford Center. To be led by Becky Cook Jones and Liz Willey. Mike and Liz are flight. Meet at Kendal of Hanover’s reception sponsored by the Harris Center and NHA’s Join local birder Dave Hoitt and wildflower Woodcock. Experience the unique sights and and Ted Boze. accomplished authors, speakers, researchers center for carpooling to the site. To be led Monadnock Chapter: all are welcome, adults enthusiast Wendy Ward on this easy walk sounds of the “sky dance” of this amazing and photographers. We will go outside by George Clark and Arthur Mudge. Co- Field Trip: Bedell Bridge Birdwalk and kids alike! Contact Henry Walters at looking for birds and wildflowers of the shorebird! Meet at the McLane Center. after the indoor program on turtles and sponsored with the Kendal Birding Club. Saturday, May 31, 6:30- 9am (603) 525-3572 or email nhyoungbirders@ open field and wetland habitat. Meet at the amphibians to see a vernal pool just a few Careful advance scouting that week will Program: Roz Renfrew: “A Tale of Bedell Bridge State Historic Site, Haverhill gmail.com for more details. Surry Town Hall parking lot at 7:00 am. The steps away. Bring a flashlight and warm determine the exact location for this walk. 56,000 Observations” - The Second This visit to the former site of the Bedell st trip should end by noon. Bring field guides, Contact: Rob Woodward at 224-0889 Field Trip: 31 Annual “Waterfowl clothing for the outside portion. Atlas of Breeding Birds of VT Covered Bridge, lost in a September 1979 binoculars, drink, snack and bug repellent. (evenings). Safari” along the Connecticut River Field Trip: International Migratory Monday, April 14, 7pm hurricane, offers an opportunity to see Sunday, March 23, 8 am For more info, call Wendy @ 313-0197 or Bird Day at the Pondicherry NWR Field Trip: Before Work Walk - The Howe Library – Hanover, NH a wide variety of birds due to the park’s Through carpools and a little walking, we’re [email protected] Saturday, May 10 Horseshoe Pond Atlas editor and VT Center for Ecostudies interesting combination of riverine, mixed Friday, May 9, 6:30 – 8 am likely to see a variety of northward bound NASHAWAY Join us for a few hours or a full day of Conservation Biologist Roz Renfrew woodlands and agricultural land habitats. To ducks and other species. Phil Brown’s group birding at the Pondicherry NWR in Wake up early and get your fill of spring will discuss the compilation and recent be led by Blake Allison. will go south from Charlestown (departing Monthly programs are held at the Nashua Jefferson and Whitefield. We have two migrants before heading off to work. Join publishing of this comprehensive survey at 8 am from the Charlestown Library Public Library. All are welcome to attend walks with the first beginning at 6 AM at Rob Woodward for what has become one of of VT’s breeding bird population. MONADNOCK on Main Street), while Eric Masterson’s programs free of charge. Programs are Airport Marsh near the Mount Washington the most popular trips of the year to see new Conservation in the face of habitat and Program: Ordinary Extraordinary group will head north from Hinsdale cancelled only if the library closes. Regional Airport in Whitefield. The second spring migrants. Contact: Rob Woodward at environmental pressures will be among the Junco film showing (departing at 8 am from the Home Depot walk begins at 8 AM at the Pondicherry 224-0889 (evenings). major themes Roz will discuss. Co-sponsored Program: The Dramatic Erratics: A Thursday, February 27, 7-9 pm parking lot in Keene). The two groups Trailhead on Airport Road in Whitefield. We with The Howe Library. Glacial History Of New Hampshire Field Trip: The Mystique of Turkey Monadnock Center for History and will meet at Herrick’s Cove in Vermont will walk 5 miles on flat terrain with several Pond with Bob Quinn Field Trip: Spring Migrant Birdwalk Culture in Peterborough for lunch. Carpools return about 1 pm. guides that will help identify birds and the Saturday, May 24, 7 am Wednesday, March 19, 7-9pm Saturday, April 19, 6:30- 9am Readily found in backyards and city parks as Co-sponsored with the Harris Center. For natural history of the area. We often see Explore the fields, forests, and wetlands of Some of the most dramatic glacial scenery Hanover, NH well as wilder landscapes, Juncos-little, gray more information or to sign up, contact 100 or more bird species. Free International Turkey Pond and learn its history from the in the country can be easily seen in New We’ll start in Hanover at Wilson’s Landing songbirds sometimes known as “Snowbirds”- Phil at [email protected] or Eric at Migratory Bird Day posters will be available days of Francis Beach White, the “Lumber Hampshire. In this entertaining program, and travel north along River Road to can be easily overlooked. But for scientists [email protected] for participants. Jills” who worked the saw mill, the sightings Bob will share such iconic images as the Lyme’s Grant Brook looking for waterfowl who study animal behavior, ecology, and from Tudor Richards, to today’s Turkey Field Trip: Dublin Woodcock Walk classic U-shaped valley of Crawford Notch and other early migrants. Meet in the evolutionary biology, the Junco is a rock Saturday, April 19, 7 pm CAPITAL Pond Bird Survey. Meet Rob Woodward at plus spectacular boulders, including the Dartmouth Printing parking lot next to star. This visually-stunning, feature-length McLane Center. Contact: Rob Woodward at The amazing aerial display of the courting amazing Glen Boulder perched high above Field Trip: A Different Kind of Hanover’s Richmond School. Led by George documentary film brings to life more than 224-0889 (evenings). American Woodcock is one of the most Pinkham Notch and the largest glacial Concord Area Waterfowl Trip Clark. Co-sponsored with The Hanover 100 years of groundbreaking research in delightful harbingers of Spring. Join trip erratic in the world-the Madison Boulder. Saturday, March 29, 2:00 PM until sunset Field Trip: Concord Airport Conservancy and Upper Valley Land Trust animal behavior, evolution, and ecology leader Tom Warren for an evening walk to After a short overview of the Ice Ages, with Saturday, May 31, 7 am featuring one of North America’s most Join Bob Quinn on this new take on the Field Trip: “Warbler Wednesdays” experience this natural spectacle. Meet at many aerial photos of existing ice fields, Bob abundant groups of songbirds. Ordinary traditional waterfowl tour in the Concord Join Dave Howe for a search for grassland May 7, 14, 21 & 28, 7-10am Charcoal Road in Dublin at Sunset. Contact will delve into some of the glacial evidence Extraordinary Junco: Remarkable Biology area. We will go where the ducks are during species at the Concord Airport. Meet at the W. Lebanon, NH Tom at [email protected] for readily seen and visited in NH, such as from a Backyard Bird shows just how much the afternoon but end up at the “Big Bend” airport parking lot. For information call Join our popular, early morning May series more details. boulders, waterfalls, striations, plucking wild bird studies can teach us – from how in the Merrimack River in Boscawen toward Dave Howe at 224-9298. of weekly warbler searches at Lebanon’s (cliffs and talus slopes), and bogs (orchids sunset to watch the birds come in to roost. the body works to how new species form

12 SPRING 2014 NH AUDUBON AFIELD NH AUDUBON AFIELD SPRING 2014 13 CHAPTER HAPPENINGS CHAPTER HAPPENINGS and carnivorous plant life). He will explain Field Trip: Maple Hill Barn, Beaver Program: Barbets, Bulbuls, and welcome with an adult. Walks start promptly Field Trip: Exeter and Beyond why we have special landscapes like the Pitch Brook, Hollis Bee-eaters: Exploring the Birds and at 7 am. Wednesday trips end by about 9 Saturday, May 10, 7 am YOUNG BIRDERS CLUB Beauty of Vietnam Pine barrens, along with the unique wildlife Saturday, May 10, 6:30-10:30am am so, if necessary, you can leave for work. Meet at Powderhouse Pond to look spring Introducing the Harriers, New Hampshire’s Wednesday, May 14 found there, and how they came about Beaver Brook Association’s seemingly endless Saturday and Sunday trips end around 12 migrant songbirds and water birds. Contact: Young Birders Club trails traverse gently rolling hills, mixed Katie Towler and Jim Sparrell will share their because of the ice. From the Karner Blues pm. Participants are encouraged to bring Len Medlock at [email protected] or Founded in the spring of 2013, The woodlands, stone walls, and marshes and trip to Vietnam in August 2013. Starting in butterfly to Moose, from Whip-poor-wills binoculars, water, insect repellent, and 603-770-8224. Harriers are a student-led organization ponds. Beaver Brook always seems to give up Ho Chi Minh City, they traveled with their to Eastern Towhees, the legacy of the last ice sunscreen. Walks are open to the public. Field Trip: Pickering Ponds Trails devoted to birds and the natural world, a few surprises. We will meet at the Maple birding guide to a tropical National Park, a age lives on. Join us for this fun and unique Field Trip: The Hidden Wilds of Sunday, May 11 and Wed., May 14, 7 am and open to all kids statewide regardless Hill Barn at 117 Ridge Rd, Hollis, NH. small town in a mountain pass, and then to program and discover why ice cream is an Durham These walks will traverse Rochester city park of experience. Membership costs $25/ Contact Richard Bielawski at 429-2537 or the cool temperatures of the south central important part of the presentation! Wednesday, May 7, 7 am trails along the Cocheco River and around year. All events are free to members and [email protected]. highlands. Katie taught in Hanoi during their parents. Check out the Club’s website Program: Speaker to be announced September and managed additional trips Meet in front of the UNH Dimond Library. old wastewater treatment facility settling at nhyoungbirders.org, as new outings Wednesday, April 16, 7-9pm SEACOAST with highlights that included seeing rare Contact: David Blezard at blezard@mac. ponds. Meet at the Pickering Ponds parking com or 603-343-1223 area. The entrance is about a mile south of are being added all the time! To RSVP Program: Speaker to be announced and endemic species such as Annam Barbet, Meetings are held at the Seacoast Science the Rochester Wastewater Treatment Plant for any of the trips below, or for more Wednesday, May 21, 7-9pm Vietnamese Cutia, Vietnamese Greenfinch, information about joining the club, write Center at Odiorne State Park, Route Dalat Shrike, Grey-crowned Crocia, and on Pickering Road (opposite mailbox #374). to [email protected], or contact Field Trip: Odiorne Point and the NH 1A, Rye, NH, and wheelchair accessible. Siamese Fireback, as well as many more Contact: Dan Hubbard at danielhubbard@ Coastline YBC Coordinator Henry Walters at (603) Refreshments are served at 7 pm. The public common, beautiful birds and a few familiar peoplepc.com or 603-332-4093. Saturday, March 22, 7am-3:30pm 525-3572. is welcome free of charge. Contact: Dan feathered friends. SANCTUARY FIELD TRIPS From Odiorne Point to Hampton Beach Hubbard at [email protected], Field Trip: Bob Hull Memorial Bird State Park, we will be looking for seabirds 603-332-4093 or see our web site at www. The Flight of the Woodcock, Silk Farm Wildlife Sanctuary Walk along the NH coast (e.g. Loons, Scoters, seacoastchapter.org/programs. Tuesday, April 8, 7-8:30pm Eiders, Grebes, Gannets). Bring your scope Saturday, March 22, 8 am Program: Birding with Sacagawea Join leader, Phil Brown, and the NH Young Birders Club to observe this seasonal spectacle. One of the most elaborate, beautiful, and if you have one and pack a lunch. We will Help clean out bluebird boxes, look for early Wednesday, March 12 downright bizarre bird behaviors of the spring season comes from a roly-poly shorebird sitting in a wet field, making a sound like that meet in Nashua at the Exit 7 Park & Ride, migrants and lingering winter birds, and get Most people know the basics of the Lewis of a truck backing up very slowly. When it bursts into flight, twittering like crazy and rising like a skylark out of sight and hearing, only on the hill behind the Fireside Inn and yourself in the mood for spring. Meet at the and Clark Expedition, and most birders to return to the precise spot where it began, you’re not going to believe your eyes or ears! Contact Phil Brown at (603) 224-9909x334 or Suites, or contact Richard Bielawski at 429- Mill Road Plaza in Durham. Contact: Len know that Lewis’s Woodpecker and Clark’s email [email protected] for more details. 2537 or [email protected] for directions Medlock at [email protected] or Nutcracker are named after the explorers. to meet at Odiorne Point. 603-770-8224. This program is your chance to combine Bird Watching Walk at Watts Wildlife Sanctuary in Effingham Field Trip: Great Bay Field Trip: Massabesic Audubon history and birding all in one place! Pam Sunday, April 13, 9:45 am Saturday, April 5, 8 am Center, Auburn NH Hunt, Senior Biologist at NH Audubon, has The public is invited to celebrate Earth Day by participating in a Bird Watch walk bordering wetlands of two rivers in Effingham. This Saturday, April 19, 7am-noon traveled the Lewis and Clark Trail twice, and Bird the varied habitats of the Great 2-hour walk will be led by local residents Kamal Nath and Johanna Vienneau. Participants will meet at the parking lot of the Effingham Come and join us as we spend the morning this presentation stems from her most recent Bay National Wildlife Refuge and other Public Library by 9:45am for a 10am departure to the Larry Leavitt Preserve to be followed by a visit to the NH Audubon Watts walking the trails at Massabesic Audubon effort in the spring of 2013. See the places Great Bay birding hotspots. Meet at the Wildlife Sanctuary. This is an easy walk of two short trails, and we will learn about some of the wetland birds that reside here, as well Center. We will meet at the center parking that the Corps of Discovery saw in 1804- McDonald’s in Newington, 49 Gosling as some of the interesting history of the area. Bring water and binoculars. Wet walking, ticks and cold weather are possibilities, so dress lot. Contact Richard Bielawski at 429-2537 06 and hear how the landscape and wildlife Road, next to the Fox Run Mall. Contact: appropriately. Registration is required and to register please call the Effingham Public Library at (603)539-1537, or send an email to or [email protected]. along the route have changed over the last Lauren Kras at [email protected] or [email protected] or drop by the Library. This is a Speaking for Wildlife program, a volunteer project of the UNH 603-801-1856. Field Trip: Horse Hill Nature Preserve 200 years. Cooperative Extension, the NH Coverts Project, and NH Fish and Game, with funding provided by the Wellborn Ecology fund of the Saturday, May 3, 6:30-10:30am Field Trip: Owl Prowl NH Charitable Foundation. This program series, sponsored by the Effingham Public Library, is co-sponsored by the Green Mountain Program: The Nature of Pondicherry Conservation Group, the Effingham Conservation Commission, and NH Audubon. We’ll be hiking into Merrimack’s 563-acre Wednesday, April 9 Saturday, April 26, 4 am nature preserve, through pine and oak Join our always popular search for owls Come celebrate the 50th Anniversary of 6th Annual Tudor Richards Memorial Field Trip/International Migratory Bird Day (IMBD) at Pondicherry Refuge woodlands, and along beaver ponds. Mud and sunrise birds. Meet at 4 am (!) at the the Pondicherry National Wildlife Refuge Saturday, May 10, 6 am at Airport Marsh or 8 am at Pondicherry trailhead on Airport Rd. season may linger here so be prepared to get Mill Road Plaza parking lot in Durham. (1963-2013) with this slide show. Learn Join leaders, Dave Govatski of the Friends of Pondicherry, and Phil Brown, Director of Land Management for NH Audubon, for a your shoes or boots wet and dirty. We will Be prepared for a long and possibly a bit where its name came from, why it is such guided bird watching tour around Airport Marsh in Whitefield (for grassland and marsh birds), then to Cherry and Little Cherry Ponds meet at 184 Amherst Rd. in Merrimack. wet, but leisurely walk through the woods. an important wildlife area and the events in Jefferson (warblers and other songbirds). This annual field trip commemorates the return of migrating birds and the memory of Tudor Contact Richard Bielawski at 429-2537 or Wear appropriate footwear and bring insect that have occurred over the past fifty Richards, NH Audubon’s first President and the “father of Pondicherry”. Bring water, lunch and binoculars. Past field trips have yielded [email protected]. years to make this such a well-loved area. repellent. Contact: Steve Mirick at smirick@ comcast.net or 978-374-0654. upwards of 100 species of birds! Be prepared to walk 3-5 miles on flat terrain. The event will be held rain or shine. Free IMBD posters for Field Trip: Mine Falls Park, Nashua Pondicherry has recorded an amazing 237 all participants. For more information contact David Govatski at 586-7776 or [email protected]. species of birds, 77 species of dragonflies Sunday, May 4, 6:30-10:30am BEGINNER BIRD WALKS Join us as we walk through Mine Falls Park, and damselflies, 65 species of butterflies, and Birds and Blooms at Ponemah Bog Wildlife Sanctuary an oasis for birds surrounded by urban and has many other interesting features. Future NH Audubon Seacoast Chapter volunteers Saturday, May 24, 8-10 am will lead four walks this spring. Although residential development, bolstered by the plans will be discussed and participants will NH Audubon Senior Biologist, Pam Hunt, will lead the first of a 5-part series of field trips extending in July that will investigate all aspects these walks are geared with the beginner waters of the Nashua River. We will meet in be invited to share stories about Pondicherry. of the natural world. Highlights of this season are spring songbird migration and blooming bog plants, including the spectacular Rhodora birder in mind, birders of all levels of the parking area at the end of Spine Rd. in Speaker David Govatski is the President of blooms of the Bog – a must see! Be prepared for some wet walking and insects on an otherwise easy .75-mile loop of the bog boardwalk expertise are encouraged to participate and Nashua. Contact Richard Bielawski at 429- the Friends of Pondicherry. trail system. For more information, or to find out about future field trips here, contact Jack Gleason at [email protected]. 2537 or [email protected]. share their experiences. Children are gladly

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