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Saving Birds: Window Collision Prevention Walk & Talk Sunday, October 18, 2026 1:30 PM 3:30 PM Riverbound Farm Sanctuary 1881 Cheshire Street Cheshire, Connecticut, 06410 United States Join Craig Repasz, Director and Co-founder of Lights Out Connecticut, to learn methods that will help stop birds colliding with your windows. The Riverbound Farm Museum/Nature Center is a demonstration house showing ... Read more
Daily September to December Lighthouse Point Park is a premier location in southern New England for observing migrating raptors and a wide variety of songbirds. The watch starts daily at 7 a.m. and continues as long as the hawks keep flying. Stop by anytime. We meet by the tall lone tree on top of the ... Read more
Field Trip – Ansonia Nature Center, Ansonia – Ranger Evelyn and Kelly Meineke Saturday, October 24, 2026 @ 8:00 am - 11:00 am Ansonia Nature Center, Ansonia 10 Deerfield Rd, Ansonia, CT Ansonia Nature Center encompasses a variety of habitats: a pond, grassy fields, thickets, wetlands, and woods. In late October we can expect numerous sparrow ... Read more
Join Audubon naturalists for a morning bird tour at the Greenwich Audubon Center! The center's open fields, apple orchard, wetlands, and woodlands provide great habitat for migrating birds such as warblers, vireos, tanagers, thrushes, orioles and more. We will also stop at our Quaker Ridge Hawk Watch in hopes of seeing migrating hawks, eagles, falcons, ... Read more
Field Trip – Farm River Trolley Trail with the Friends of the Farm River and Estuary, East Haven – DeWitt Allen Sunday, October 25, 2026 @ 8:00 am - 11:00 am The Friends of the Farm River and Estuary invite the New Haven Bird Club to share a walk along the tracks of the Shoreline Trolley Museum ... Read more
Daily September to December Lighthouse Point Park is a premier location in southern New England for observing migrating raptors and a wide variety of songbirds. The watch starts daily at 7 a.m. and continues as long as the hawks keep flying. Stop by anytime. We meet by the tall lone tree on top of the ... Read more
Field Trip – Lake Dawson, Woodbridge – Pat Leahy Saturday, October 31, 2026 @ 8:00 am - 11:00 am Join Pat Leahy for a walk on protected Regional Water Authority property in Woodbridge. We will see fall migrants and winter residents. There are some mild slopes on a well-maintained road. Meet at Lake Chamberlain Regional Water Authority ... Read more
Field Trip – Cheshire Hotspots – Melissa Baston Sunday, November 1, 2026 @ 8:00 am - 12:00 pm We bird several hotspots in the Town of Cheshire, including Broad Brook Reservoir. The Reservoir annually hosts 200-400 Ruddy Ducks in fall, one of the highest concentrations of this diving duck in the state. The Reservoir is level walking ... Read more
Daily September to December Lighthouse Point Park is a premier location in southern New England for observing migrating raptors and a wide variety of songbirds. The watch starts daily at 7 a.m. and continues as long as the hawks keep flying. Stop by anytime. We meet by the tall lone tree on top of the ... Read more
Field Trip – Hammonasset Beach State Park, Madison – Corrie Folsom O’Keefe Saturday, November 7, 2026 @ 8:00 am - 11:00 am Join Corrie Folsom-O’Keefe, Director of Bird Conservation for the CT Office of the National Audubon Society, for a walk at Hammonasset Beach State Park, one of CT’s most productive birding destinations at all seasons of ... Read more
✪ Monthly Meeting ✪ November 10 – Tue 7:30 pm / Social Time at 7:00 pm St James’s Episcopal Church. 1018 Farmington Ave, WH Speaker: Craig Repasz, Friends of Stewart B McKinney NWR The Wild Dark While we sleep, the natural darkness is teaming with life. Over half of the world’s insects are active at ... Read more
Introduced Birds: Wednesday, November 11, 2026 6:00pm – 7:00pm Zoom Free to Attend Suggested donation $10 There are over 450 species of birds found in Connecticut, and only a handful are not native to the state. The effects these birds have on the environment and on us vary, and some have become among the most ... Read more
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