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In this issue of Otter Tracks you will find the following articles:
- The 26th Annual Great Backyard Bird Count
- The Significance of Peatlands
- Managing Woodlands for Maple and Songs
- From a Book Club to Biomimicry
- Sign Up for 2023 Salamander Escorts
- Dusky Seaside Sparrow
- Calendar of Events
Otter Creek Audubon Society members will receive a copy in the mail but you can always find the latest issues of Otter Tracks in color on our home page. You can also browse issues going back to the year 2000 in our Otter Tracks Archive.
On, the evening of Thursday, Nov. 10, OCAS held our Annual Meeting online via Zoom. Our President, Ron Payne, gave an update on our activities for the past year, then we held a board election. If you weren’t able to attend, you can watch a recording of it in the video posted above.
We are currently in the process of amending our Bylaws and Constitution to give us the flexibility to hold our meeting at a different time of year, so we hope this will be the last Annual Meeting we will have had to hold online.
In this issue of Otter Tracks you will find the following articles:
- Sharing Nature: An Educator’s Week
- Telephone Gap
- Outdoors Is Best!
- Bird Migration Explorer
- Hog Island Summer Camp
- Purple Martin Status
- Chapter Report
- Calendar of Events
Otter Creek Audubon Society members will receive a copy in the mail but you can always find the latest issues of Otter Tracks in color on our home page. You can also browse issues going back to the year 2000 in our Otter Tracks Archive.
In this issue of Otter Tracks you will find the following articles:
- Forests for the Birds (…and People)!
- A Merlin’s Voyage
- Outdoors Is Best!
- Reflections on Hog Island Camp
- Songbird Feather Molt
- Calendar of Events
Otter Creek Audubon Society members will receive a copy in the mail but you can always find the latest issues of Otter Tracks in color on our home page. You can also browse issues going back to the year 2000 in our Otter Tracks Archive.
In this issue of Otter Tracks you will find the following articles:
- VT Rare Species Status Change
- Eight Ways to Help Birds
- Education Happenings
- Look Ahead to 2022 Environmental Education Grants
- Scout Bridge at the Hurd Grassland
- Amphibians on the Move
- Calendar of Events
Otter Creek Audubon Society members will receive a copy in the mail but you can always find the latest issues of Otter Tracks in color on our home page. You can also browse issues going back to the year 2000 in our Otter Tracks Archive.
In this issue of Otter Tracks you will find the following articles:
- Great Backyard Bird Count
- Extreme Weather in 2021
- Denali’s Muldrow Glacier Surge
- 2022 Environmental Education Grants
- Sign Up for 2022 Salamander Escorts
- Winter Wren
- Calendar of Events
Otter Creek Audubon Society members will receive a copy in the mail but you can always find the latest issues of Otter Tracks in color on our home page. You can also browse issues going back to the year 2000 in our Otter Tracks Archive.
A picture from the Hurd Grassland photo post, 10 January, 2021. 
A picture from the Hurd Grassland photo post, 13 February, 2021. 
A picture from the Hurd Grassland photo post, 19 March, 2021 
A picture from the Hurd Grassland photo post, 11 April, 2021. 
A picture from the Hurd Grassland photo post, 8 May, 2021. 
A picture from the Hurd Grassland photo post, 12 June 2021. 
A picture from the Hurd Grassland photo post, 10 July, 2021. 
A picture from the Hurd Grassland photo post, 14 August, 2021. 
A picture from the Hurd Grassland photo post, 11 September 2021. 
A picture from the Hurd Grassland photo post,, 9 October, 2021. 
A picture from the Hurd Grassland photo post, 13 November, 2021. 
A picture from the Hurd Grassland photo post. 
A picture from the Hurd Grassland photo post, 8 January, 2022.
A little over a year ago, our friends at the Middlebury Area Land Trust placed a series of Photo Posts at strategic places on their properties and trails. One of them is located at The Hurd Grassland in Weybridge, in the shrubland section next to the structure we call The Birdhouse, and since we hold Monthly Wildlife Walks there, we decided to make it a habit to take a picture from the post during each outing. You may have seen these pictures before in our walk reports, but here is a full year of them, plus one, all together in one gallery that you can scroll through to see the changes to the property throughout the season.
To lean more about these photo posts, and how to use them, see the pictures below.
A picture from the Otter View Park photo post, 10 January, 2021. 
A picture from the Otter View Park photo post, 13 February, 2021. 
A picture from the Otter View Park photo post, 19 March, 2021. 
A picture from the Otter View Park photo post, 11 April, 2021. 
A picture from the Otter View Park photo post, 8 May, 2021. 
A picture from the Otter View Park photo post, 12 June, 2021. 
A picture from the Otter View Park photo post, 10 July, 2021. 
A picture from the Otter View Park photo post, 14 August, 2021. 
A picture from the Otter View Park photo post., 11 September, 2021. 
A picture from the Otter View Park photo post, 9 October, 2021. 
A picture from the Otter View Park photo post, 13 November, 2021. 
A picture from the Otter View Park photo post, 13 December, 2021. 
A picture from the Otter View Park photo post, 8 January, 2022.
A little over a year ago, our friends at the Middlebury Area Land Trust placed a series of Photo Posts at strategic places on their properties and trails. One of them is located at Otter View Park in Middlebury near the parking lot, next to the bike rack, and since we hold Monthly Wildlife Walks there, we decided to make it a habit to take a picture from the post during each outing. You may have seen these pictures before in our walk reports, but here is a full year of them, plus one, all together in one gallery that you can scroll through to see the changes to the park throughout the season.
To lean more about these photo posts, and how to use them, see the pictures below.
Do you live in or near one of the circles in the map above? If so, you should consider participating in the Christmas Bird Count. One of the oldest, continuously running, citizen science projects, the CBC has accumulated over a century’s worth of data on the occurrence of wintering birds. There are two ways to participate, as a field observer Read the rest of this entry »
In this issue of Otter Tracks you will find the following articles:
- Spotlight: An Environmental Education Grant
- Endangered Species
- A Hurd Grassland Housing Development
- 19th Annual Dead Creek Wildlife Day
- Chlorpyrifos’ Last Chapter
- Update on Wisdom
- Calendar of Events
Otter Creek Audubon Society members will receive a copy in the mail but you can always find the latest issues of Otter Tracks in color on our home page. You can also browse issues going back to the year 2000 in our Otter Tracks Archive.
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