Interns and Volunteers Welcome — and needed!

The Birds of Vermont Museum bustles with activity all year long but the pace really picks up during our regular season from May through October. We can always use extra hands around here! We welcome and appreciate your skills, interests, ideas, and elbow grease, and have a number of ways you can help. As an intern [...]

Laura Waterhouse: Winter Intern

The Museum was most fortunate to be the temporary workplace this winter of Laura Waterhouse, an American citizen born and raised in New Zealand,  as she completed an internship program here during December, January, and February. While interning at the Museum, Laura was engaged in both daily operations and research projects. From feeding birds and [...]

Garden Blog #4 Guest Post by Nic Cormier 8/3/10

Planting continues in the new garden, and around the Museum. The Irises have been planted in the small bed beneath the welcome bulletin board along the path that leads to the Museum. We also obtained some Coreopsis (Tickseed) plants, planted at the entrance to the keyhole pathway, and Garden Phlox which I planted near the [...]

7/17/10 Garden Journal #3

Guest Post by Nic Cormier, Education Intern Last week we got a responses to our post that we had put on the Front Porch Forum asking if anyone had any flowers or plant donations for our gardens. Ms. Janet Labelle, who lives just down the road from the museum, invited us to her home to [...]

7/3/10 Garden Journal #2

Guest post by Nic Cormier, Education Intern Until last week the garden bordering the lawn had not been worked in almost five years. A few previously planted perennials managed to keep a foothold among the abundant “weeds”.  Additional native flowers, sometimes considered weeds, were also uncovered. We plan to open it back up and bring [...]

6/15/10 Garden Journal

Guest Post by Nic Cormier, Education Intern Last weekend, Erin and I took a walk around the gardens talking about what should be done with what and where. While we were in the more open section we noticed some interesting flowers that neither of us had seen before. They are round and some of them [...]

Intern with the Museum

We’ve just posted two internship descriptions to our website: Museum Education and Communications.