We are settling into the season with our annual Ney Winter Bird Count.  This will be our 28th year counting birds as part of the larger National Audubon Society’s Christmas Bird Count (CBC).  The CBC is the longest running citizen science project in the world, with this winter’s count being the 125th CBC.  Our Winter Read more »

Welcome to the end of Spooky Season!  With all of the Halloween decorations that have bats in them, I thought that this would be a great time to talk about these amazing creatures. While all of the species of bats that live in MN are insectivores, bats are also excellent pollinators and seed dispersers world Read more »

This month at our Lifelong Learner Lunch we talked about volcanoes.  We covered how they formed, the differences between various kinds of volcanoes,  some famous eruptions, and how scientists predict eruption.  This is a fun topic, as it helps us to understand more of the processes of plate tectonics as well as the landscapes we Read more »

Hello!  I wanted to take a moment today to talk about one of my favorite groups of birds, the Corvids.  Corvids are birds that are members of the crow family, and are renowned for their intelligence.  Myths and stories about corvids can be found in nearly all cultures.  Only 3 species of Corvids nest in Read more »