All Entries in the "Nature" Category
Audubon Programs and Special Events for the New Year
Audubon Greenwich 613 Riversville Road Greenwich, CT 06831 203-869-5272 http://greenwich.audubon.org Nature Programs & Special Events: Sunday, January 1 – February 18, 2012 *** NATURE STORE NEWS FLASH: Enjoy a Huge Sale in the Nature Gift Shop – Great Books & Toys for All Ages! Now and throughout the Holiday season, enjoy a huge sale in [...]
Audubon Greenwich Upcoming Events
Audubon Greenwich ~ Nature Programs & Special Events: Friday, October 21 to Sunday, November 20 Friday, October 21 FILM: “Facing The Storm” – all about Buffalo! 6:00-9:00 American bison once dominated the Plains, numbering in the tens of millions. Then we nearly eradicated them from the continent, changing the ecology and the entire Plains culture [...]
Election Day Plant Sale
Garden Education Center 130 Bible Street Cos Cob, CT Tuesday, November 8 11:00am – 3:00pm Keep Spring alive throughout the Winter! Fill your home with wonderful house plants such as orchids, ferns and succulents to help keep those dreary Winter days brighter. Visit the greenhouse for plants that will cheer you up all winter long. [...]
Rain or Shine, Falcons Will Fly Over Audubon This Weekend
Audubon Greenwich 613 Riversville Road Greenwich, Connecticut 11:00am-5:00pm This Weekend, Oct. 1 & 2, Audubon in Greenwich will host its “13th Annual HawkWatch Weekend Festival & Green Bazaar” from 11:00 am-5:00 pm (rain or shine.) This is not the first year with questionable forecasts. Festival Manager Jeff Cordulack said, “After two years of perfect ‘Indian [...]
Audubon Greenwich Summer Nature Programs & Events
Audubon Greenwich 613 Riversville Road Greenwich, Connecticut Message from Audubon Greenwich ~ Nature Programs & Events: HawkWatch Weekend Festival & Green Bazaar October 1 & 2 11:00 am-5:00 pm A family-friendly, green-themed celebration of the amazing raptor migration occurring above the Audubon Greenwich center each Fall. This special event will feature kids activities, great food, [...]
Local Artists Exhibit at Garden Education Center
Opening Reception Garden Education Center 130 Bible Street Cos Cob, CT Friday, September 30, 2011 6-8 PM Branching Out: Artists Interpret Trees at Montgomery Pinetum The exhibit, sponsored by the Greenwich Tree Conservancy, The Greenwich Arts Council and the Garden Education Center, brings together eleven exceptional artists to create art work inspired by the unique specimen [...]
Learn About Forests with Professor Olsen
at the Bruce Museum Friday, Sept. 16, 2011 7:00 p.m. The first of three lectures, International Year of Forests 2011, celebrating the UN International Year of the Forest and partnering with the Bruce Museum “Forests and the Changing Climate: Evolutionary Innovation” by Prof. Paul E. Olsen, Professor of Geological Sciences at Columbia University. The lecture series, [...]
Greenwich Tree Talk at the Audubon
at Audubon Greenwich 613 Riversville Road Sun., Sept. 18, 2011 2-4 p.m. “Upland Watershed: The Source and Filter of Good Water.” Bruce Spaman, Superintendent of Parks and Trees and Town Tree Warden, discusses the forest and watershed management on the Audubon Greenwich property at Riversville Road and John Street. Please reserve at: treeconserv@optonline.net. Free of [...]
Go Wild! and Help the Greenwich Land Trust Protect Land
at Conyers Farm September 25, 2011 from 3-6PM Widely known as the premier family event of the year, Go Wild! attracts an enthusiastic family crowd to delight in all the autumn event offerings – hot air balloon rides, giant hay maze, petting zoo, rock climbing wall, obstacle course, crafts, steeple chase races, birds of prey [...]
Audubon Greenwich July & August Events
Audubon Greenwich ~ Nature Programs & Events: Audubon Greenwich 613 Riversville Road Greenwich, CT 06831 203-869-5272 http://greenwich.audubon.org Love-A-Pollinator Day Saturday, July 30 Native Pollinators: a walk & talk with Kim Stoner 3:30-5:30 pm Learn about our valuable native bees and other pollinators with Kim Stoner, Ph.D., a vegetable entomologist at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station [...]
Overnight Permit to Island Beach Available
An overnight camping permit for this Friday, July 29th for Island Beach has become available, contact Allan Murphy for details – 203-661-6004 x320 office. “Island Beach formerly known as Little Captain’s Island, is situated in Long Island Sound about two miles south of Greenwich Harbor. Access is by ferry from the landing at Roger Sherman [...]
