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Patterson Park Audubon Center has been actively involved in the community since 2002, providing education programming with schools, recreation centers, and after school programs in Patterson Park. The education staff also provides bird walks, pre-school programs, and family and adult programs in the Park for the community. In 2006, the Center provided 175 school programs, 95 after school programs, 13 Tiny-Tot preschool programs, and 12 family and adult programs. Our office is currently located in a storefront office adjacent to the park.

For almost two hundred years, the 155-acre park has been one of Baltimore’s most intensively used greenspaces, playing a vital role in the lives of the people of Southeast Baltimore. Its environmental significance may not be as obvious, but to those who treasure the Chesapeake Bay, its significance is well known - Patterson Park is situated in the Chesapeake Bay’s Patapsco Watershed, near Baltimore’s Inner Harbor.

Patterson Park is truly an urban oasis. Majestic trees, acres of open grass meadow and a large community garden provide a rich diversity of habitats. A wide variety of wildlife has been documented in the two-acre pond and its fringing wetland, including nesting Wood Ducks, Yellow Bellied Sapsuckers, Ruby-crowned Kinglets, Baltimore Orioles, Downy Woodpeckers, Rufous-sided Towhees, American Goldfinches, Black-Crowned Night Herons and Chimney Swifts. Over 120 species have been recorded in the Park – quite an impressive testimonial to the vitality of this small, but beautiful oasis in Baltimore.

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There is something for everyone at the Park, we hope you will visit!