Advocacy

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Hope is the thing with fur

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That's part of our job as Madison Audubon staff, volunteers, members, and friends. We have to hope and act on the hope that we can preserve, protect, and strengthen much of our natural world.  

The natural world shares that hope. Think of what our bird friends are up to these days. What's more hopeful than nesting?

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The best day of the Year

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The best day of the Year

The 55 fourth graders of Madison's Lincoln Elementary School celebrated Earth Day a day early on Friday, April 21. They planted dozens of oak trees along Black Earth Creek and saw some of the storied inhabitants of the creek up close and personal.

Photo by Brenna Marsicek / Madison Audubon

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Kindness, Love, and Care

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Kindness, Love, and Care

I think Madison Audubon's grappling with the John James Audubon legacy and deciding to change the Chapter's name is also motivated by kindness, love, and care. We want to reach out to everyone in our community with care and kindness and share our love of the natural world. We can't share that love and extend a hand of kindness and camaraderie if we ignore the effects of Audubon's cruelty and racism. Madison Audubon’s staff and board have certainly been extraordinarily careful in their consideration of Audubon's history and the pain it still causes today.

Photo by Arlene Koziol

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Beauty and Guilt

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The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel revealed yesterday what southern Wisconsin birders have known for several days.  The Lake Michigan shoreline in Milwaukee is hosting a male Mandarin Duck, arguably the world's most spectacular and beautiful duck.  

If you don't want to drive to Milwaukee and join dozens of other birders, check out the photos below. WOW, WOW, WOW.

Photo by Andy Reago & Chrissy McClarren