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Audubon for Homeowners

Your connection to the natural world

Homeowners can make their living space friendly to birds, animals, beneficial insects, and plants--and reduce their environmental footprint.

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Audubon Volunteer Naturalist Training

3/25/19 9:30 am

Join our crew leading school field trips. This training will give you the basic techniques and natural history. March 25 is the first day of the series meeting every Monday for the next six weeks through April 29. Free with a commitment to lead.

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Pymatuning Bird Outing

3/24/19 8:00 am

Pymatuning State Park represents one of the best places in Pennsylvania to observe migrating waterfowl and raptors like Bald Eagles. Participants will meet at the Wildlife Learning Center on the Linesville side of the park, just up from the spillway. Contact Chris Kubiak at ckubiak@aswp.org for more information. Free

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Audubon Earth Day: Day of Service to the Planet - Beechwood

4/20/19 9:00 am

Roll Up Your Sleeves and help ASWP on the Audubon Earth Day of Service. We are inviting everyone to help celebrate with our Earth Day of Service, a morning of pitching in with friends and neighbors at each of our three locations to show some love to our little corner of the planet. Help us remove invasive species and return native plants and trees to the ecosystem, or help out on our trails. Help ASWP to beautify and improve our reserves and green spaces for our birds and local wildlife. Families and community groups encouraged to participate. Free.

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Audubon Earth Day: Day of Service to the Planet - Succop

4/20/19 9:00 am

Roll Up Your Sleeves and help ASWP on the Audubon Earth Day of Service. We are inviting everyone to help celebrate with our Earth Day of Service, a morning of pitching in with friends and neighbors at each of our three locations to show some love to our little corner of the planet. Help us remove invasive species and return native plants and trees to the ecosystem, or help out on our trails. Help ASWP to beautify and improve our reserves and green spaces for our birds and local wildlife. Families and community groups encouraged to participate. Free.

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Audubon Earth Day: Day of Service to the Planet - Todd Nature Reserve

4/20/19 9:00 am

Roll Up Your Sleeves and help ASWP on the Audubon Earth Day of Service. We are inviting everyone to help celebrate with our Earth Day of Service, a morning of pitching in with friends and neighbors at each of our three locations to show some love to our little corner of the planet. Help us remove invasive species and return native plants and trees to the ecosystem, or help out on our trails. Help ASWP to beautify and improve our reserves and green spaces for our birds and local wildlife. Families and community groups encouraged to participate. Free.

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Audubon Volunteer Naturalist Training

4/1/19 9:30 am

Audubon Volunteer Naturalists lead small groups of school students on field trips on the trails at Beechwood Farms Nature Reserve, primarily spring and fall. This training will provide teaching techniques and basic natural history. This is class will meet every Monday for six weeks March 25 through April 29. Sign up for the first session, March 25, to register for the series. Contact Scott, sdetwiler@aswp.org, for complete details about the Audubon Volunteer Naturalist program.

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Audubon Volunteer Naturalist Training

4/8/19 9:30 am

Audubon Volunteer Naturalists lead small groups of school students on field trips on the trails at Beechwood Farms Nature Reserve, primarily spring and fall. This training will provide teaching techniques and basic natural history. This is class will meet every Monday for six weeks March 25 through April 29. Sign up for the first session, March 25, to register for the series. Contact Scott, sdetwiler@aswp.org, for complete details about the Audubon Volunteer Naturalist program.

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Audubon Volunteer Naturalist Training

4/15/19 9:30 am

Audubon Volunteer Naturalists lead small groups of school students on field trips on the trails at Beechwood Farms Nature Reserve, primarily spring and fall. This training will provide teaching techniques and basic natural history. This is class will meet every Monday for six weeks March 25 through April 29. Sign up for the first session, March 25, to register for the series. Contact Scott, sdetwiler@aswp.org, for complete details about the Audubon Volunteer Naturalist program.

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Audubon Volunteer Naturalist Training

4/22/19 9:30 am

Audubon Volunteer Naturalists lead small groups of school students on field trips on the trails at Beechwood Farms Nature Reserve, primarily spring and fall. This training will provide teaching techniques and basic natural history. This is class will meet every Monday for six weeks March 25 through April 29. Sign up for the first session, March 25, to register for the series. Contact Scott, sdetwiler@aswp.org, for complete details about the Audubon Volunteer Naturalist program.

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Audubon Volunteer Naturalist Training

4/29/19 9:30 am

Audubon Volunteer Naturalists lead small groups of school students on field trips on the trails at Beechwood Farms Nature Reserve, primarily spring and fall. This training will provide teaching techniques and basic natural history. This is class will meet every Monday for six weeks March 25 through April 29. Sign up for the first session, March 25, to register for the series. Contact Scott, sdetwiler@aswp.org, for complete details about the Audubon Volunteer Naturalist program.

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Hummers at Home and Project Nestwatch - Beechwood

4/13/19 12:00 pm

This combined Citizen Science program looks at two important citizen science programs you and your family can participate in. Hummers at Home monitor hummingbirds and how they must sync their migration and nesting times with the flowering of nectar-bearing plants. Nestwatch is a nationwide monitoring program designed to track status and trends in the reproductive biology of birds, including when nesting occurs, number of eggs laid, how many eggs hatch, and how many hatchlings survive. Free.

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Hummers at Home and Project Nestwatch - Succop

4/13/19 12:00 pm

This combined Citizen Science program looks at two important citizen science programs you and your family can participate in. Hummers at Home monitor hummingbirds and how they must sync their migration and nesting times with the flowering of nectar-bearing plants. Nestwatch is a nationwide monitoring program designed to track status and trends in the reproductive biology of birds, including when nesting occurs, number of eggs laid, how many eggs hatch, and how many hatchlings survive. Free.

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Hummers at Home and Project Nestwatch - Todd Nature Store

4/13/19 12:00 pm

This combined Citizen Science program looks at two important citizen science programs you and your family can participate in. Hummers at Home monitor hummingbirds and how they must sync their migration and nesting times with the flowering of nectar-bearing plants. Nestwatch is a nationwide monitoring program designed to track status and trends in the reproductive biology of birds, including when nesting occurs, number of eggs laid, how many eggs hatch, and how many hatchlings survive. Free.

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Native Meadows for Any Space - Beechwood

3/23/19 10:00 am

Meadows provide food and shelter for birds and pollinators. Learn tools and techniques for creating meadows in any size space. Attendees will make their own native wildflower seed mix.

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Woodland Wildflowers: Native Plants of Spring - Beechwood

4/27/19 10:00 am

Get to know southwestern Pennsylvania’s amazing native spring wildflowers. Learn how you can incorporate these native plants into your yard to support birds, pollinators, and wildlife then take a walk around BFNR to see them in their natural setting.

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Volunteer Opportunity: Habitat Enhancement at Beechwood

3/30/19 9:00 am

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Volunteer Opportunity: Habitat Enhancement at Beechwood

3/23/19 9:00 am

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Volunteer Opportunity: Habitat Enhancement at Beechwood

4/13/19 9:00 am

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Volunteer Opportunity: Habitat Enhancement at Beechwood

4/6/19 9:00 am

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Native Plant Nursery Volunteer Session

4/16/19 4:00 pm

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Native Plant Nursery Volunteer Session

4/23/19 4:00 pm

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Native Plant Nursery Volunteer Session

4/30/19 4:00 pm

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Native Plant Nursery Volunteer Session

5/7/19 4:00 pm

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Native Plant Nursery Volunteer Session

5/14/19 4:00 pm

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Native Plant Nursery Volunteer Session

5/21/19 4:00 pm

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Native Plant Nursery Volunteer Session

5/28/19 4:00 pm

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Native Plant Nursery Volunteer Session

6/4/19 4:00 pm

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Native Plant Nursery Volunteer Session

6/11/19 4:00 pm

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Native Plant Nursery Volunteer Session

6/18/19 4:00 pm

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Native Plant Nursery Volunteer Session

6/25/19 4:00 pm

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Native Plant Nursery Volunteer Session

7/2/19 4:00 pm

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Native Plant Nursery Volunteer Session

7/9/19 4:00 pm

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Native Plant Nursery Volunteer Session

7/16/19 4:00 pm

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Native Plant Nursery Volunteer Session

7/23/19 4:00 pm

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Native Plant Nursery Volunteer Session

7/30/19 4:00 pm

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Native Plant Nursery Volunteer Session

8/6/19 4:00 pm

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Native Plant Nursery Volunteer Session

8/13/19 4:00 pm

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Native Plant Nursery Volunteer Session

8/20/19 4:00 pm

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Native Plant Nursery Volunteer Session

8/27/19 4:00 pm

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Native Plant Nursery Volunteer Session

9/3/19 4:00 pm

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Native Plant Nursery Volunteer Session

9/10/19 4:00 pm

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Native Plant Nursery Volunteer Session

9/17/19 4:00 pm

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Native Plant Nursery Volunteer Session

9/24/19 4:00 pm

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Native Plant Nursery Volunteer Session

10/1/19 4:00 pm

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Native Plant Nursery Volunteer Session

10/8/19 4:00 pm

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Native Plant Nursery Volunteer Session

10/15/19 4:00 pm

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Native Plant Nursery Volunteer Session

10/22/19 4:00 pm

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Native Plant Nursery Volunteer Session

10/29/19 4:00 pm

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Native Plant Nursery Volunteer Session

11/5/19 4:00 pm

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Night Hike for Adults - Beechwood

5/11/19 8:00 pm

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Night Hike for Adults - Succop

5/11/19 8:00 pm

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Night Hike for Adults - Buffalo Creek Nature Center

5/11/19 8:00 pm

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Common Nighthawk: Not So Common Anymore - Beechwood

5/16/19 7:00 pm

Most active at dusk and dawn, the “peent” call of Common Nighthawks was once a familiar sound in cities and towns throughout the region. But Nighthawks have declined substantially in Western Pa over the last 30 years

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Wetland Wonders - Beechwood

5/18/19 1:00 pm

We will investigate the incredible diversity of organisms and adaptations they possess to thrive in this unique ecosystem. Participants will learn to use water test kits to investigate water quality.

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Native Plants for Challenging Spaces - Beechwood

7/20/19 10:00 am

Wondering what to plant on that steep hillside or if there are plants that will work in an area that is always saturated with water? Participants will have an opportunity to make seed balls using a variety of native wildflower seed.

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Foraging Your Backyard - Beechwood

8/17/19 10:00 am

Discover native plants that not only provide beauty and resources for wildlife in the landscape but are also a delight on the dinner table. We will have a cooking demo and sample a taste of what an edible backyard can offer us.

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Talking Trees - Beechwood

9/21/19 10:00 am

We will explore recent research on the amazing Underground Communication network within a forest. Then we will visit Audubon’s Native Plant Nursery to learn ways to grow some important tree species from seed. $6 per member, $10 per nonmember.

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Chimney Swifts: Life on the Wing - Succop

8/24/19 10:00 am

A bird best identified by what looks like a cigar with wings, the smudge-gray Chimney Swift nimbly maneuvers over rooftops, fields, and rivers to catch insects. Learn about the life history of this enigmatic little bird that spends almost its entire life airborne, as well as ASWP’s Swift conservation efforts across the region

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Chimney Swifts: Life on the Wing - Beechwood

8/21/19 7:00 pm

A bird best identified by what looks like a cigar with wings, the smudge-gray Chimney Swift nimbly maneuvers over rooftops, fields, and rivers to catch insects. Learn about the life history of this enigmatic little bird that spends almost its entire life airborne, as well as ASWP’s Swift conservation efforts across the region

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Chimney Swifts: Life on the Wing - Todd Nature Store

9/7/19 10:00 am

A bird best identified by what looks like a cigar with wings, the smudge-gray Chimney Swift nimbly maneuvers over rooftops, fields, and rivers to catch insects. Learn about the life history of this enigmatic little bird that spends almost its entire life airborne, as well as ASWP’s Swift conservation efforts across the region

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Monarch Larva Monitoring: Citizen Science - Succop

7/20/19 12:00 pm

The Monarch Larva Monitoring Project is a long term study of the distribution, breeding and mortality rates of monarch butterflies as they have gone in steep decline. Participants learn how this Citizen Science project engages people in observing and studying the milkweed habitat, and identify all life stages of the Monarch butterfly in the field.

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Monarch Larva Monitoring: Citizen Science - Todd Nature Store

7/21/19 12:00 pm

The Monarch Larva Monitoring Project is a long term study of the distribution, breeding and mortality rates of monarch butterflies as they have gone in steep decline. Participants learn how this Citizen Science project engages people in observing and studying the milkweed habitat, and identify all life stages of the Monarch butterfly in the field.

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Monarch Larva Monitoring: Citizen Science - Beechwood

7/20/19 10:00 am

The Monarch Larva Monitoring Project is a long term study of the distribution, breeding and mortality rates of monarch butterflies as they have gone in steep decline. Participants learn how this Citizen Science project engages people in observing and studying the milkweed habitat, and identify all life stages of the Monarch butterfly in the field.

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Project Budburst: Citizen Science - Beechwood

9/21/19 10:00 am

Project BudBurst participants make careful observations of the timing of leafing, flowering, and fruiting phases of plants (plant phenophases) throughout the year. Spring, summer, fall, and winter phases are all valuable.

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Project Budburst: Citizen Science - Succop

9/21/19 10:00 am

Project BudBurst participants make careful observations of the timing of leafing, flowering, and fruiting phases of plants (plant phenophases) throughout the year. Spring, summer, fall, and winter phases are all valuable.

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Project Budburst: Citizen Science - Todd Nature Store

9/21/19 12:00 pm

Project BudBurst participants make careful observations of the timing of leafing, flowering, and fruiting phases of plants (plant phenophases) throughout the year. Spring, summer, fall, and winter phases are all valuable.