Celebrate the changing seasons with a guided hike to discover the incredible journey of fall bird migration! As summer gives way to autumn, thousands of birds travel through our area on their way to their winter homes, making this a wonderful time to explore local trails and see what feathered visitors we can find. This […]
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Join Shirley Heinze Land Trust on February 14th for this year’s Great Backyard Bird Count! This is a global event that will span from February 13th to 16th. We will identify, count, and log our data to help scientists better understand and protect birds worldwide. Lydick Bog Nature Preserve offers fantastic birding due to its
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By: Melissa Washburn Does that sound like an awful lot of birds? Last year I learned that that’s the estimated number of individual birds that flew overhead in just the first three days of Indiana Audubon’s annual Indiana Dunes Birding Festival. Northwest Indiana is an ideal pit stop for birds during peak spring migration in
By Warren Buckler When Peg Mohar and I embarked on our Bringing Nature Home project ten years ago, in part as a way for older members to remain active, we had no idea what response we’d get from the gardening public. Our goal, inspired by Doug Tallamy’s book “Bringing Nature Home,” was to recognize
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The tenth season of our Bringing Nature Home Program was not to be deterred by a pandemic. The ability to spend time outdoors, tending to gardens and landscapes has become a great source of respite for many, and the applications came in. Plantings ranged from small city gardens to multi-acre rural landscapes. While we were
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