Current News
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led by Jim Millard from CMAS with assistance from: Herb Dingmann, Jean Johnson, Kyle Woitalla on 25 April, 16 / 23 / 30 May, 2026 Spring migration brings the largest variety of breeding plumage birds. As we move into late…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…