Upcoming at Bedford Audubon
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From Bedford Audubon:
“The Bedford Audubon Society’s Programs
May 2009
“Trip to Marshlands Conservancy and Rye Nature Center With Bedford Audubon Naturalist Tait Johansson, Saturday May 2, 7:30 a.m.–3:00 p.m. Departure (carpool) from Bylane Farm, 35 Todd Road, Katonah.
Marshlands Conservancy in Rye is located on the migratory flyway. This 173-acre wildlife sanctuary is composed of a diversity of habitats—forest, meadow, salt marsh, and seashore. The preserve has three miles of trails and one-half mile of shoreline along the Long Island Sound. The Rye Nature Center is located on 47 acres of wildlife preserve off Route 1 in Rye. It has over two miles of hiking trails, ponds, streams, and granite outcroppings in addition to a butterfly house and museum exhibits. Bring lunch and hiking boots. Degree of Difficulty: Easy to Medium.
Please register with Joan E. Becker, jebecker@bedfordaudubon.org
Early-Morning Bird Walks With Bedford Audubon’s Tait Johansson,
Tuesdays and Thursdays, from May 5 to May 28, 7:30 a.m.–9:30 a.m.
Twice a week, eminent naturalist Tait Johansson will lead bird walks at varying locations in the area such as Maple Avenue, Katonah (intersection of Reservoir Road, off Route 22), Bylane Farm, 35 Todd Road, Katonah, and Angle Fly Preserve, Route 39 in Somers. This is warbler time! Whether you are a novice or an experienced birder, you will thoroughly enjoy these leisurely walks and benefit from Tait’s vast knowledge of the avian world. Rain will cancel the walks. Degree of Difficulty: Easy.
Please register with Joan E. Becker, jebecker@bedfordaudubon.org
Bedford Audubon Society Annual Meeting Followed by Lecture:
”Listening to the Landscape: Using Nature’s Clues to Design a Garden That Works” With Scott LaFleur, Ph.D., New England Wild Flower Society
Wednesday, May 13, 7:30 p.m.
Katonah Memorial House, 71 Bedford Road, Katonah
The BAS annual meeting and election of BAS directors will be held prior to this evening’s lecture.
Dr. Scott LaFleur will offer helpful hints on how to design a native plant garden that attracts birds, bees, butterflies, and other critters beneficial to the environment.
He will demonstrate how natural ecosystems provide us with a host of information about native plants and their conditions for growth. Choosing native plants that provide food and forage for wildlife is a great way to keep a diversity of life healthy and abundant in your landscape. Invasive plants, on the other hand, can disrupt the delicate balance of life and should be avoided at all costs.
Dr. LaFleur is the Horticulture & Botanic Garden Director of the New England Wild Flower Society, the oldest plant conservation organization in the United States, and the Garden in the Woods, its living museum on 45 acres in Framingham, Massachusetts. He curates and manages an extensive public collection of 1,500 native plant species, including 200 rare and endangered species.
Phone: (914) 232-1999, email: info@bedfordaudubon.org. Website: www.bedfordaudubon.org
The program is free and open to the public.
Katonah Memorial House is wheelchair accessible
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Bill Cary grew up in Louisville, Ky. His gardening was limited to growing parsley and impatiens on the windowsill of Manhattan walkups until the mid-1990s when he bought a rundown old chicken farm on 8 acres in the Hudson Valley. Now he spends his weekends chasing deer, hacking away at invasive shrubs and vines and wondering why he doesn`t have more meadow and less lawn.
