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As the dust settles on another Mass Audubon Bird-a-thon weekend, it’s time to catch up with all that went down.

At Suffolk County, a cattle egret at Eastport Park in Boston, a lingering Iceland gull at Deer Island, a willow flycatcher and a black-billed cuckoo at Millennium Park in West Roxbury, two yellow-bellied sapsuckers at The Rose Kennedy Greenway in Boston, three white-crowned sparrows at Belle Isle Marsh Reservation in East Boston, a white-crowned sparrow at Arnold Arboretum, three broad-winged hawks soaring over Franklin Park and two ring-necked ducks at Chestnut Hill Reservoir.

These cool Cape Cod National Seashore hiking areas attracted the most visitors. Find out why!

As we approach mid-April, spring migration is heating up, literally and figuratively.

Naturalist Dennis Minsky of Provincetown is thinking about birds.

Fans of the Beech Forest Trail can take a lap on the loop again. The Cape Cod National Seashore has completed a new elevated boardwalk.

Take in the spectacular Great Ocean Road, the dramatic Grampians, and the fun and colour of Victoria's great goldrush rural cities on this amazing journey by rail and road.

Grab your bicycle or rent one and you can find dozens of miles of paved paths to enjoy from one end of Cape Cod to the other.

If you were out in nature at all this Friday or Saturday, you may have noticed some people with binoculars looking a bit crazed, perhaps more unkempt even than usual, checking their watches and rushing about on trails.

It’s now finally May, which means spring, and spring migration, get serious. Gardens look like gardens again, bees are about, and just like that, familiar birds are back.