Maine Audubon

Friends in the Caribou and Mars Hill area, there is a special opportunity this weekend to join Maine Audubon Staff Naturalist Doug Hitchcox and friends to comb through the many waterfowl species migrating through northern Maine with hopes of finding a rare goose! On Saturday (Oct. 19) in Caribou and Sunday (Oct. 20) in Mars Hill, we will meet and caravan to various goose hangouts in the area. (Some of these stops may be along the sides of roads, rather than areas with designated parking lots, so we’ll ask people to carpool and condense the number of vehicles driving around.) Join us for this unique and free birding outing! Register here: https://buff.ly/3YpCssQ

Like working with scientists, community partners, volunteers, and others to conserve wildlife? We are looking for a fulltime, year-round Community Science Manager. This person will lead our community science initiatives and engage in conservation outreach. By helping collect critical data in support of wildlife conservation, community scientists are important contributors to Maine Audubon’s conservation efforts. This role will involve managing programs that engage the public in data collection, public outreach, and conservation actions, ensuring that community members are vital components of our projects. Full job description is available on the Careers page of our website (https://buff.ly/3vmUvzY). https://buff.ly/3b5gaU6

Join Maine Audubon and members of Back Cove Financial on Saturday, October 19 for a fall cleanup at Scarborough Marsh! We are proud to sponsor this event, as the Scarborough Marsh provides critical habitat for a broad array of wildlife, particularly birds. Help us clean this important piece of our environment; food donations will also be collected for Project GRACE. 🌎

COME WORK WITH US! Our Properties Department currently has two openings so please spread the word. We're looking for year-round help, both full time as a Facilities Manager, and part time as a Custodian and Facilities Assistant, at our lovely Gilsland Farm headquarters in Falmouth. Details on our Careers page> https://buff.ly/3b5gaU6

Welcome Ania Wright!

Climate change represents the single largest threat to Gulf of Maine fish and wildlife. As an organization dedicated to wildlife conservation, Maine Audubon has spent a lot of time evaluating and advocating for opportunities to address climate change, including supporting renewable energy. Offshore wind in the Gulf of Maine presents an opportunity we can’t afford to ignore, but we have to do it right. Read our op-ed in the Maine Sunday Telegram.

Let the stream act like a stream! That's the idea behind Stream Smart road crossings--they let the stream act like a stream and make the road invisible to the stream. Maine Audubon and its Stream Smart partners work to provide training opportunities for professionals all across the state of Maine in order to expand the local knowledge base on how to include aquatic organism passage and higher storm volume capacity when designing stream/road crossings. We offer an Introductory Workshop, Stream Smart Phase I Workshop, and a two-day field-based training workshop, Stream Smart Phase II Field Workshop. We've got two of these Phase II workshops taking place in October. These provide a two-day, hands-on introduction to stream survey techniques and concepts associated with developing ecologically sound road/stream crossings. Find out more! When: Wednesday October 9 and Thursday October 10 from 8:30 am-3:30 pm https://buff.ly/4gACS6O Where: Baxter State Park Headquarters, 64 Balsam Drive Millinocket, ME When: Tuesday, October 22 and Wednesday, October 23 from 8:30 am-3:30 pm Where: Fields Pond Audubon Center, 216 Fields Pond Road, Holden, ME https://buff.ly/4gxYsst

Come work with us! Do you have a background in facilities maintenance and groundskeeping? We're looking for a Facilities Manager at Gilsland Farm Audubon Center, Falmouth. We are seeking a mission-driven, skilled tradesperson to work under the Director of Properties and lead day-to-day maintenance of Maine Audubon’s office spaces, visitor center, and managed grounds at our beautiful 65-acre headquarters and campus in Falmouth, just outside of Portland, Maine. Find details on our Careers page: https://buff.ly/4gtkOv7

In the latest "Ask Maine Audubon" column in the Maine Sunday Telegram, Staff Naturalist Doug Hitchcox says, "As we head into fall, we’ve received a bunch of questions that I wanted to address briefly, so buckle up for a round of rapid-fire answers," from squirrel behavior to bat houses to smoke. Send your nature questions to ask@maineaudubon.org for Doug!

Are you seeing caterpillars and flies? Larvae that look like caterpillars? In this week's Ask Maine Audubon column in the @pressherald, Staff Naturalist Doug Hitchcox addresses the seasonal influx of questions about all the “bugs” that are bugging people, and points out some of the “good” and “bad” insects that are around right now.