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An Earth Day Bird Walk with Many Helping Hands 365

Earth Day Bird Walk and A LITTLE Trouble-Making

SATURDAY, April 19 at 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM. CAMBRIDGE, MA

WHEN AND WHERE

DATE – Saturday. April 19, 2025
TIME 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM ET
WHERE Danehy Park, Cambridge, MA

We will meet at the New Street Parking Lot. (166-190 New St, Cambridge, MA 02138).

QUESTIONS? hello@bostonbirdingfestival.org

This event is free, but you must register in advance. Spaces are limited.

We also request a signed release, which you can complete on line or print, sign, and bring or complete onsite. 

Please look for the email we send in advance for updates. 

EVENT DETAILS

GPS ADDRESS:
166-190 New St. Danehy Park , Cambridge

We’ll meet in the parking lot next to the Dog Park off New Street. Parking is free. There are usually porta-potties at this location.

PLEASE USE PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION, BIKE, OR CARPOOL to this event if you are driving. 

DIRECTIONS AND PARKING
The closest subway stations are Alewife and Porter Square. There are several buslines and a Blue Bike station at Danehy Park. Parking is available in in several lots aroud the park.

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ABOUT THIS TRIP

Celebrate Earth Day with a morning bird walk at Danehy Park, one of the largest and most popular of Cambridge’s green spaces. Earth Day matters now more than ever.

We’ll keep an eye, and especially an ear, out for newly arriving songbirds and other migrants as well as resident birds.

Danehy Park is also home to a Miyawaki Forest, planted by volunteers in 2021. There are now 140+ trees and 32 native species of plants. 

Registration is required. Limited to 24. A second walk may be added if there is demand. 

After this walk, you’re invited to join us in sitting down to write a postcard or two to your representatives about environmental issues of your choice or other actions. We’ll bring everything you need—pens, stamps, etc.

We are excited to offer this walk in partnership with Many Helping Hands 365 and, if you are a Cambridge neighbor, plan to join us in celebrating the next MLK Day of Service.

Beginners are welcome and encouraged to join us—we’ll even have some binoculars to lend. You can also download the free Merlin app if you’d like to learn more about bird songs on this walk.
 
See you out there.

Habitat

Grassland, Wetland, WOODLANDS, SCRUB. URBAN PARK

Lord Baltimore in all is orange finery poses for teh camera
A pop of sunshine and sweet cheerfulness--the Yellow Warbler
Oh Sam Peabody--the perky white throated sparrow shows off his good look.

PHOTOS: Redwing Blackbird, Baltimore Oriole, Yellow Warbler, White-throated Sparrow, Getty Images, 

GOOD TO KNOW

TRAILS
This walk is easy/moderate, about 2 miles over mostly paved surfaces. If our group is interested, we can also explore a less developed trail. The area is hilly and some places are uneven but is regarded as “stroller friendly”

CHALLENGES
 We may encounter leashed dogs at this property.

ABOUT MANY HELPING HANDS 365

For more than 16 years, Many Helping Hands 365 has organized the Cambridge MLK Day of Service, which has grown into one of the largest community service events in New England, beloved by thousands of repeat volunteers.

MHH365 also regularly works with local partners to create and promote special events—from gun buy-back days to teach-ins and workshops and organizes a wide range of racial justice events in partnership with others to bring people together to fight racism and increase equity and environmental justice. We also register people to vote.

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