🌱 How Millbrook hayfields can help save these “reverse tuxedo” songbirds
Millbrook, New York Patch AM: a 3 min readHi Millbrook! We have the latest buzz right here. Let's keep you in the loop and get this morning started right! ☀️
In today's newsletter:
- How Millbrook hayfields can help save these “reverse tuxedo” songbirds
Also on today's calendar: Classic Design Luncheon & Lecture: Beyond Blue and White with Genevieve Wheeler-Brown and 6 more events.
Today's riddle: What did the carpenter ant say when he walked into the bar? 🤔 (Answer below!)
- Wednesday: Plenty of sunshine, with a high of 80 and low of 47 degrees.
- Thursday: Very warm, temps: high: 86, low: 50. 🌶 Hot!
- Friday: Partly sunny and very warm, with a high of 88 and low of 60 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• Bobolink is grassland bird in reverse tuxedo (hardwickgazette.org) — Bobolinks are back in Millbrook’s meadows, filling local fields with their bubbly, robotic songs as they nest and raise chicks. A Millbrook-based ecologist explains how these striking “reverse tuxedo” birds choose nest sites and why delayed mowing and grassland management around town are crucial to protect their declining populations. 
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Classic Design Luncheon & Lecture: Beyond Blue and White with Genevieve Wheeler-Brown →
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Spring Arts Festival
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Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, 2801 Sharon Turnpike, Millbrook
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Innisfree Garden, 362 Tyrrel Rd, Millbrook
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Innisfree Garden, 362 Tyrrel Rd, Millbrook
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Spring Arts Festival
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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Is the bar tender here? (Thank you W. M. for sending it in!)
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