In This Issue

♦ Photo Contest Winners
♦ Booming Snowy Owl Season
♦ Report Cards for Our Birds
♦ Where Are We Now?

A Gift that Keeps Giving

Looking for a last-minute gift for the holidays? How about one that helps protect nature while providing endless outdoor adventures?

Give a gift membership today! 

Early Bird Camp Savings

It may be chilly outside, but we're keeping warm with thoughts of camp. Registration is live for Wildwood, our overnight camp in Rindge, NH. Pick from any of our two-week sessions for a memorable summer experience.

A New Site to See

On November 13, we flipped the switch on our new and improved website. And this wasn’t just a simple redesign. To ensure that we provide the best experience possible for a very diverse group of users, we did a complete, top-to-bottom rebuild.

Read some highlights or explore the site.

Focus on Feeders

Want to be part of our winter bird count? Focus on Feeders 2014 will take place February 1 & 2.

Red Rover, Come Over

We're excited to team up with RedRover, a great mobile app for parents on the go. View our family-friendly programs, register online, and easily share them with friends.

Get the details.

Car Talk

More than $19 million in environmental protection projects (including grants to Mass Audubon) have been funded through the Massachusetts Environmental Trust's "Preserve the Trust" license plates.

Learn more.

Connect With Us

Keep up-to-date, share photos and wildlife sightings, and more!

Plus: See all of our publications, e-newsletters, and blogs.

PHOTO CONTEST
And the Winners Are...

Once again we were amazed by the photographs entered in the 2013 Mass Audubon Picture This photo contest. After much deliberation, we are pleased to announce this year’s winners.

	Grand Prize © Paul Mozell

View a slideshow of the winning images.

NATURE NOTES
Booming Snowy Owl Season

	photo by Dave Larson

New England has seen a major spike in snowy owls this year!

One spot snowy owls particularly like is the airport. Norman Smith of Mass Audubon's Blue Hills Trailside Museum has been trapping snowy owls at Boston's Logan Airport and releasing them safely elsewhere for more than 30 years.

Learn more about where to see snowy owls, how we protect them at Logan Airport, and how you can help support Norman's work.

NEWS
Report Cards for Our Birds

After years of planning and 46,000 hours in the field, the Breeding Bird Atlas 2 (BBA2) is finally complete. The largest citizen science program ever undertaken in the state compares the status of breeding birds in the 1970s with their status today. It's available as an ebook via iTunes and it will soon  be available as a print-on-demand publication as well. You can also view all of the content on our website.
 
In conjunction with BBA2, we have also released State of the Birds 2013. This document summarizes some of BBA2's key findings and provides practical strategies for our partners and members to take direct conservation action.

View the Breeding Bird Atlas 2 and State of the Birds 2013 online or purchase the one-of-a-kind eBook via iTunes.

SNAPSHOT
Where in Mass Audubon Are We Now?

Congratulations to everyone who guessed that the last photo featured in Explorations was taken at Great Neck Wildlife Sanctuary in Wareham. Of those with correct guesses, Cheryl of Seminole, FL, was chosen at random to be the lucky winner of a pocket field guide.

Ready to guess another Mass Audubon wildlife sanctuary?
The standing dead trees and snags in the pond at this unstaffed wildlife sanctuary provide nesting sites for bluebirds, pileated woodpeckers, great blue herons, ospreys, and an occasional great horned owl.

Email your guess by January 15 and you could win a pocket field guide.