by Dave Small | Jan 16, 2000 | Bird Trip Reports, Field Trip Reports
January 15, 2000 Veteran Trip leader Mark Taylor from Northfield led the Club’s first field trip of the century to the Massachusetts Coast at Cape Ann. Frigid temperatures with a low of the day recorded at -9 degrees F in Templeton on the way down and not rising...
by Dave Small | Oct 16, 1999 | Bird Trip Reports, Field Trip Reports
October 30, 1999 Nineteen members and friends of the Athol Bird and Nature Club joined Club President Dave Small for a daylong exploration of the New Salem Section of the MDC Quabbin Watershed. Entering Gate 29 off Route 202 the group immediately noted the harvest of...
by Dave Small | Oct 2, 1999 | Bird Trip Reports, Field Trip Reports
October 2, 1999 The Orange Municipal Airport provides the North Quabbin Region with a unique mixture of grassland, farmland, shrub and young forest habitats adjacent to mature forests and wetlands. This land use mosaic provides habitats for a wide diversity of plant...
by Dave Small | Jul 25, 1999 | Field Trip Reports
In spite of early weather forecasts to the contrary, cloudless skies and bright sunshine greeted the 16 members and friends of the Athol Bird and Nature Club who met for the annual Dragonfly field trip held Sunday in Petersham. Blair Nikula, Jeremiah Trimble and Rick...
by Dave Small | Jun 16, 1999 | Field Trip Reports
June 12, 1999 The Butterfly Institute traveled to Gill Massachusetts led by Institute coordinator Dave Small and Montague naturalist Mark Fairbrother. The group made its first stop at a farmers wet meadow. The first of two Milbert’s Tortoiseshells and Tiger...
