Posts by jbird24
Flying Squirrel Vocalizations
VINS is partnering with Dartmouth College to study flying squirrel vocalizations. The VINS Nature Center was chosen as a perfect location because of numerous and consistent sightings of flying squirrels. VINS research staff and Dartmouth researchers collected several individuals using live traps and specially designed platforms from the woods around the property. Researchers also utilized…
Read MoreRemembering VINS’ Recent Past
What do you like about working at VINS that has kept you here for so many years? LC: I love the people that I work with. I think we’re a good team, and we’re accepting of everyone’s new ideas. I also love working with the public and listening to their stories, especially during our private…
Read MoreYou Are Nature’s Best Hope
On Wednesday, March 9, 2022 VINS hosted Douglas Tallamy via Zoom for a lecture about “Nature’s Best Hope” – spoiler alert, it’s you! Douglas Tallamy is the T.A. Baker Professor of Agriculture in the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Delaware, where he has taught for 41 years. His main focus…
Read MoreHanover High School Kestrel Boxes
Students in the woodworking class at Hanover High School recently completed construction of several American Kestrel boxes, which they then donated to the VINS kestrel monitoring project. Using a completed box as a model, the students were able to draw up plans to build their own boxes using materials that were already available in their…
Read MoreFlying Squirrels
The woods at our Quechee nature center are home to a population of flying squirrels. We encountered three individuals during the small mammal trapping portion of our tick ecology project this summer and observed several others while reviewing video from our camera trapping throughout the year. All of our encounter data was submitted to the…
Read MoreFinding Middlebury
Middlebury, one of the Red-tailed Hawks in our Winter Raptor Project, has reestablished connection since he last transmitted data in April!
Read MoreTagging Monarch Butterflies
This year seems to be solidly average for monarch butterflies at VINS. Tagging continues through the month but there are not huge numbers like the summer of 2019.
Read MoreCWBR Updates & A Special Release
By Lauren Adams, Lead Wildlife Keeper Ah, winter. The “quiet” season in wildlife rehabilitation. Around here, we call it Barred Owl season. When the cold air creeps in, the mornings are frosty, and nighttime descends in mid-afternoon, this is when New England is up against its toughest test. Barred Owls, unlike many birds that populate our skies…
Read MoreVINS Says Goodbye to a Beloved Ambassador, Utah the Great Horned Owl
By Lauren Adams,Lead Wildlife Keeper You can hear him even before you get inside the building. Each day he greets us with the characteristic “Hoothoot Hoot Hoot.” “Good morning, Utah,” we reply going about our daily tasks. It is easy to take for granted a friendly conversation with one of the most fearsome predators of…
Read MorePeter Guesses “Hooo” Will Be Our 500th Patient!
By Peter GauWildlife Keeper VINS is abuzz with exciting news from the Center for Wild Bird Rehabilitation. With the intake of patient #491 we’re only 9 birds away from treating 500 injured or orphaned wild birds in 2016! We haven’t been so close to this milestone in a few years- this is a big deal!…
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