This winter the Dorothy Molter Museum has been taking the lead in our community by establishing a public bird feeding area. The area they are developing helps fulfill the museum’s mission of presenting Dorothy’s appreciation of birds and other aspects of nature.
Thanks go out to Anne Swenson and Lisa Pekuri for donation of feeders that were not in use and could be put back into productive use at the museum. With the vision of Mary Parks and the oversight of Sarah Guy-Levar and the DMM Board, the feeders have been diligently filled and improved on by Sherry Abst. Raw suet, suet cakes, broken sunflower seeds and peanut butter have kept the black-capped chickadees, red-breasted nuthatches, blue jays, American goldfinches and recently pine siskins in regular attendance. Who knows what spring will bring? Most of the feeders are well designed to limit whitetail deer and red squirrel presence.
Another note of news is an exhibit that Mary Parks prepared for the Quilter’s Window Display in the Ely Public Library lobby. The exhibit contains a quilt of Dorothy’s with a bird theme along with a variety of books and quotes that illustrate Dorothy’s bird-watching activities. This is the last week that the exhibit will be available, so take a look before it goes away.
There has been sightings and video of the Canada lynx that has been moving about the edges of the city. Last week it stopped at the Dorothy Molter Museum and checked out the suet feed or maybe it was the birds that were visiting the feeder. Whatever its interest, Mary Parks had an exciting end to her work day as she took these pictures.
Ely Field Naturalists 