Natural History

Early May is a good time to view colonial wading birds before they retreat to their island rookeries for the summer breeding season.  This is also the time to see the waves of migrating songbirds and the early local breeding birds including red-tailed hawk and northern oriole.  We will meet at Muscota Marsh to look […]

Join Paul Sadowski at Payson Center as he presents a slide presentation on The Role of Fungi in Forest Succession in the Post-Glacial Periods.  Then follow Paul on an exploration hike of the forest to seek out mushrooms introduced in the lecture. Given the evanescent nature of fungi, it is difficult to know what species will be […]