York County Audubon will present a program on November 20th at 7:00pm, Mercury in Ecosystems of the Northeast: Songbirds as Sentinels of Contamination featuring Evan Adams, Migratory Bird Program Director at the Biodiversity Research Institute (BRI) in Gorham.

Mercury is a pollutant. But what do we know about its effects on wildlife? The BRI has recently summarized a decade’s worth of research on mercury contamination in songbirds and bats in the Northeast in a report called Hidden Risk.  Evan will discuss how mercury gets into the environment and what the results mean for birds of conservation concern in the Northeast.

This program is FREE and will be held in the Mather Auditorium of the Wells Reserve at Laudholm Farm, 342 Laudholm Farm Road, Wells.

SIS Scenic Maine Photo Contest Promoted via Facebook™

Opportunity to Win a Prize and Select a Local Charity to Receive a Donation

Show us your favorite Scenic Maine Photo!

To enter our Maine Scenic Photo contest, you can post up to 5 photos now through June 8, 2012. We’ll select our favorite twelve (no more than one per person) that may be chosen for SIS’s 2013 calendar or other print materials and then ask our online social network community to vote for #1. For each vote placed, we will make a $1 donation to a charity or organization of the winner’s choice, up to $300. Plus, the winner gets a $100 gift card! That’s not all!

Join us Thursday, February 9 for the monthly meeting of the Eastern Trail Alliance. Meetings are held every second Thursday of the month at the Wells Town Hall, located about halfway between the Turnpike exit and Route 1. All are welcome to attend. Come find out what's new and how you can get involved. FMI, contact us at eta@easterntrail.org or 207-284-9260.