Author: Twilight
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Tamarack Bog Tour
We have a treasure in our area: The St. Wendel Tamarack Bog Scientific and Natural Area. Mike Lee from the DNR’s Minnesota Biological Survey led a group from CMAS and Wild Ones to observe some of those treasures. Slogging through a bog with many downed trees and plenty of mud is no easy task, but…
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Grebe Outing
May 27th was a beautiful day to be out on Lake Osakis with Let’s Go Fishing of Alexandria to hopefully observe the Western Grebe’s mating dance. We filled two big pontoon boats. Even though it was toward the end of the mating season and the nesting season had started, we were rewarded with mating behaviors!…
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Chimney Swift Monitoring
The Chimney Swift monitoring is in progress. If you are interested in participating, meet in the Subway parking lot in Cold Spring on the first or third Tuesday of the month at 30 minutes to sundown through August. We will have a Swift Sit for a larger group on Thursday, August 13th (see calendar). Photo credit: Dori…
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Donors March-May
Thank you to our generous donors for the months of March, April and May: Karl Krueger, Elaine and Stephen Thrune, Duane and Loyola Gaida, John and Linda Peck, Maleeka A. Teye, Mark Conway, Michael Wossner, and Charlotte Stephens. We appreciate your support!
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Annual Picnic
At the annual picnic at the Peck farm we enjoyed beautiful weather and wonderful conversations as well as food! This was a joint picnic for CMAS and the St. Cloud Unitarian Universalist Fellowship. Children tried out the rope swing in the hayloft and throwing tennis balls down the granary shoot. John took a group for…
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Kids to Parks ’26
We had a beautiful day for Stearns County’s Kids to Parks Day at Quarry Park on May 16th. CMAS had a table with information about our organization, a bird coloring table and Nature Bingo Game for kids, and led bird walks for kids and their adults after the two raptor presentations. Jackie Fallon from the…
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Annual Meeting-Fundraiser-Tribute
It was wonderful to see so many people show up on May 11th at our Pizza Ranch Fundraiser to help us honor two icons of Central Minnesota Audubon Society (CMAS), and central Minnesota conservation in general: John and Linda Peck. Thanks to all who expressed their heartfelt appreciation to Linda and John, and helped us…
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Phenology with John Latimer
It was a delight to hear NPR Northern Community Radio Staff Phenologist John Latimer share his observations of the timings of natural events over the past 40 years. He spoke at the third annual joint meeting of CMAS, MN Master Naturalists, St. Cloud Flower and Garden Club, Wild Ones and Stearns County Horticultural Society on…
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Purple Martins
Dick Doll is a Stearns County resident with a love for purple martins. He shared his experiences at our March meeting. Dick began working toward purple martin conservation in 2002 in Willmar. He is now involved in a geo-locator study of purple martin migration being conducted by Texas A&M, Columbia University of Manitoba, and the University…
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Phenology with John Latimer
Following is the poster for our joint meeting on April 21, 2026, 6:30 p.m. in the Founders Room (Quad 170), St. John’s University, Collegeville (see calendar for more details). Help us spread the word: Tell you friends, print and display the poster!