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  • Beginning Birding for Youth and Families

    Directions upon registration

    with Dan Ziomek, Local Birder and WRSI’s Bird Songs Radio Program For young people ages 8-13 Saturdays, April 9, 16, 23, 30 and May 7, 14 7:30am-10am Spring migration is […]

    $60 – $120

  • Explore a Vernal Pool

    Directions upon registration

    with Ted Watt, Hitchcock Center Naturalist
    Vernal pools with their temporary spring accumulations of rain and runoff water provide unique homes for a variety of amazing creatures. How do they survive both in the water and when the pool dries up?

    $15 – $18

  • Homeschool I: Nature’s Superheroes

    Hitchcock Center for the Environment 845 West Street, Amherst, MA

    Is it a bird? Is it a plane? It’s a nature superhero! In Homeschool I this spring we will learn about superheroes of survival in nature. We’ll explore super senses, and learn how sight, hearing, and smell are used to capture prey and avoid detection.

    $375 – $404

  • Homeschool II: Understanding Animal Behavior

    Hitchcock Center for the Environment 845 West Street, Amherst, MA

    Have you ever wondered why animals act the way they do, or what they are thinking? Why do coyotes howl at night? Is the cardinal pecking my window because it’s angry? Do the two crayfish you caught like each other? During this spring’s Homeschool II class we’ll be exploring these and many other questions about the inner lives of the animals around us.

    $375 – $404

  • Phenology All Year: Red-Backed Salamander Citizen Science Talk

    Directions upon registration

    with Sean Starrett
    Join us for our third year of offering an in-depth natural history course for naturalists and citizen scientists. Each month, in our series of nature explorations with different local naturalists, we explore a focused, seasonal, natural history topic.

    $250 – $275

  • Morning Nature Walk for Seniors

    USFWS Silvio O. Conte National Fish and Wildlife Refuge

    with John Green
    Join John at this wonderful time of year to explore the beautiful new accessible trail of the USFWS Silvio O. Conte National Fish and Wildlife Refuge system.

    FREE

  • Net Zero Water and the Living Building Challenge 

    Hitchcock Center for the Environment 845 West Street, Amherst, MA

    Chris Chamberland, Civil Engineer Berkshire Design Thursday, April 14, 7pm The new Hitchcock Center for the Environment and its future neighbor, Hampshire College’s Kern Center, will soon meet the ambitious […]

    FREE

  • Nature Discovery Preschool

    Hitchcock Center for the Environment 845 West Street, Amherst, MA

    We will head in to spring in full flight! Children and their adult companions will explore the world of birds through movement, songs, crafts and live animal observations. We will investigate what makes a bird a bird, bird adaptations, bird language and much more. By the end of our time together we will be amateur ornithologists!

    $205 – $225

  • Nature Discovery Preschool

    Hitchcock Center for the Environment 845 West Street, Amherst, MA

    We will head in to spring in full flight! Children and their adult companions will explore the world of birds through movement, songs, crafts and live animal observations. We will investigate what makes a bird a bird, bird adaptations, bird language and much more. By the end of our time together we will be amateur ornithologists!

    $205 – $225

  • Beginning Birding for Youth and Families

    Directions upon registration

    with Dan Ziomek, Local Birder and WRSI’s Bird Songs Radio Program For young people ages 8-13 Saturdays, April 9, 16, 23, 30 and May 7, 14 7:30am-10am Spring migration is […]

    $60 – $120