"Especially Birding" A special birding opportunity in the H.G. Bird Sanctuary, a Hudson-Mohawk Bird Club sanctuary.  Its woods, dunes, and wetlands also include a variety of flowers as well as ferns, mosses, and giant trees.  [...]

FRIDAY, May 3 leader: Ruth Brooks

Casual social with lemonade & cookies while we informally talk about healthy yards, what ECOS is doing, and take a walk up the street to look at a neighbor & friend of Gillian’s native plantings. [...]

If we’ve timed this right we’ll be able to wander through magnolias in bloom, as well as exploring various plant regions from Europe to Asia to America.  Easy hiking, mostly level, though it might be [...]

"Especially Mushrooms" This walk will focus on mushrooms as well as trees and wildflowers.  Mushroom identification will be for beginners!  Vale Cemetery is an historic "rural" cemetery that opened in 1857 with the planting of [...]