Join Maine Master Falconer Larry Barnes to learn about the ancient art of falconry. Celebrate one of the
most important and spectacular events in the Americas - bird migration. Bring your cameras for some
great close-ups of Larry’s 2 beautiful hunting falcons - a peregrine & a hybrid! www.birdday.org

Join these wildlife experts & professional educators with their living menagerie of exotic wildlife related to our very own Maine Wildlife Park residents! See & photograph wildlife like a Serval Cat, Crested Porcupine, Arctic Fox, Indigo Snake, Alligator Snapping Turtle, Giant Bullfrog or Egyptian Fruit Bat; all while learning how they are connected to Maine’s resident wildlife. www.WILDCenterNE.org Sponsored by Main Line Fence

Maine and El Salvador may seem like a world apart, but both places are facing extreme pressure from corporations to mine for minerals. Please join PICA and the Natural Resources Council of Maine (NRCM) in welcoming Salvadoran mining activist Sandra Carolina Ascencio to Maine, Friday, March 29, 7:00-8:30 p.m., Unitarian Universalist Church (120 Park St.), Bangor.

How about a pond for planting those water-loving plants, and attracting beautiful and beneficial wildlife?

The Belfast Garden Club continues their evening program series, Tuesday, March 12 at 6:30pm in the Abbott Room at Belfast Free Library. The theme for this winter’s evening lectures is Water and Planting in the Home Landscape for Beauty and Conservation. The March speaker will be Candi (Benwitz) Gilpatric, a Maine Natural Resource Conservation Agricultural Engineer who will discuss Pond Construction and Maintenance.

Join Kate Petrie, Acadia National Park Ranger, on Friday, March 15, from 11:30 am til 1 pm, for a presentation on the natural landforms of Schoodic. She will present information and images that show the effects of glaciers and wave action on the rocks of Schoodic. The meeting will be at Eliot Hall on the SERC campus. Free and open to the public; donations welcome at the door. Bring your lunch; SERC will supply coffee, tea, and water.

Join Paul Markson, local birder and Hirundo volunteer, for this first Hirundo winter program. Paul will watch for birds, signs for otter and other animals. All levels welcome. Suggested donations are $5 for adults, school-aged children are free.
Reservations and cancellations requested, call 207-944-9259.

Learn how to enjoy all that winter has to offer while staying comfortable in the outdoors. The workshop will be interactive and participants can expect to be outside during the entire course and active throughout the day.

The Jesup Memorial Library and the newly formed Acadia Astronomical Society team up for this program to teach people about telescopes. The society is seeking new members, but the program is open to all. Have a new telescope? Bring it and learn how to use it; or come and learn about the Jesup’s new telescope and how to check it out and take it home, just like a book.This is a free service and part of the Jesup’s ongoing community outreach.

Date: Sunday, January, 20, 2013

Host: Maine Huts & Trails

Timing: Wave starts will begin appr. 10 minutes after the shuttle bus arrives at the starting points – appr. 9:45 a.m. for the 20K and 10:00 a.m. for the 40K. The 60K will begin at Grand Falls Hut at 8 a.m. Official timing will end at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday for all participants.

Distances: 20K/40K/60k

Divisions: Race(R) and Tour (T)

Participants: 175 combined between all distances – limit 32 spaces for the 60K, and up to 120 spaces available for the 20K/40K.

Join the thousands of people across the country who participate in the largest and longest-running citizen science project, counting birds for the Audubon Christmas Bird Count. As part of the national effort that has taken place for over 100 years, SERC Institute will assist in the Schoodic Bird Count, held this year on New Year’s Day. The Schoodic Christmas Bird Count will take place on Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013. Count compiler Bill Townsend and Schoodic Bird Ecology Lab Director Seth Benz invite you to get in on the action.