John Whittaker
Clymer Central School second-graders are pictured taking part in activities focusing on the natural habitat provided recently by the Audubon Community Nature Center.
Photos courtesy Clymer Central School
CLYMER A new summer program is coming for Clymer Central School District residents that partners with the town’s existing summer recreation program.
During a recent Board of Education meeting, Josh Tedone, Clymer elementary school principal, discussed a new summer camp that will be available to all district students in kindergarten through sixth grades. The literacy camp would be held Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays starting around the second week of July.
Apr 8, 2021
Tim Galati, a senior at Southwestern Central School, has been awarded the 2021 Ryan Exline Memorial Scholarship by the Audubon Community Nature Center.
Every spring since 2003 Audubon Community Nature Center education staff have raised scholarship funds through their Birdathon on the first Saturday in May. Participants look for as many species as possible and generous supporters pledge an amount, either per species or in total.
For the first time, this year’s birdathon extends over nine days, from May 1 to May 9. Amounts raised above the $500 for the Ryan Exline Memorial Scholarship will go toward the Pamela A. Westrom Wildlife Habitat now under construction.
KATIE FINCH
Sometimes learning looks like this â wading through literal mud, or muddling through trying to make sense of our questions.
Imagine two scenarios. Its spring and a group of young kids are outside with an adult leader. They had a lesson about animals that lay their eggs in water in the spring. They’ve learned about salamander, frog and toad eggs and are now out to see if they can find any evidence of those creatures.
In scenario one, a kid walks up to the pond and says “Are those eggs?” pointing to a whitish clump just under the water.
Feb 25, 2021
At Audubon Community Nature Center and via Zoom, you can learn about an opportunity for your 8 18 year old to raise pheasant. On Tuesday, March 2, Cornell Cooperative Extension 4-H Youth Development will give families an overview of the process of rearing the pheasants provided free of charge by New York state.
Cornell Cooperative Extension 4-H Youth Development is holding a pheasant rearing class for youth ages 8 to 18 in partnership with the Audubon Community Nature Center.
Raising Pheasant for New York – Class 1 is Tuesday, March 2, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Nature Center and via Zoom.
The workshop gives families an overview of the pheasant-rearing process. Pheasants will be provided free of charge through the state Department of Environmental Conservation and will be delivered the first week of June.
Jan 6, 2021
Three and a half years ago, naturalist and Jamestown native Mark Baldwin moved to the shores of Malaren, Sweden’s third-largest freshwater lake, near Stockholm, Sweden.
He has been exploring the forests and fields of the area ever since.
On Friday, Jan. 8, from 11 a.m. to noon, Baldwin will share stories and lessons in natural history from his Swedish journey, taking those taking part on a virtual tour of “The Nature of Sweden,” a First Friday presentation of Audubon Community Nature Center.
Baldwin spent his early years and most of his career in Jamestown. He now teaches science in an urban middle school and spends as much time as possible with his wife Ardy and their family, enjoying the forest near their home.