We invite all of you to join us for our annual spring bird walks every Saturday morning in May.  We've extended our schedule this year, including the last Saturday in April and first Saturday in June as well. If you haven't been to one and always thought about it "try it.... you'll like it!" They are for any level of birder from novice to expert. We meet at the store at 7:45, carpool to either East Rock Park or the Farmington Canal/Brooksvale Park and spend approximately 2 hours walking the woods and fields looking for newly arriving migrants and also local birds that may be around. 

Specialties include the many warblers that pass through on their way north as well as many that nest here in CT.  Scarlet Tanagers, Baltimore Orioles, Black and Yellow Billed Cuckoos, are among the many other birds we often see and hear. 

The going is usually fairly easy although it can sometimes be damp if we walk in the grass.  Children are welcome but they must be accompanied by an adult and they must be well behaved.  There are quite a few groups that bird East Rock Park and being able to keep together and be quiet so our group as well as others can hear and enjoy the birds is very important.

2010 Spring Bird Walk Schedule

- Apr 24th
- May 1st
- May 8th
- May 15th
- May 22nd
- May 29th
- June 5th

* $2 per person / Meet at the store at 7:45 am and will return by 10:00am

Red-tailed Hawk, West Rock ©jimzipp.com

Fat Robin Hawkwatch Workshop

Saturday October 10th
@ Lighthouse Park - New Haven, CT
8:00 am - 10:00 am

This fall we have a Hawkwatch/Identification Workshop to be held at Lighthouse Point, where anywhere between 13,000 and 30,000 hawks are counted every fall!

$2 per person, binocular rentals available

Meet at the Park by 8 for a couple of hours of watching, instruction and just enjoying the fall migration of not only hawks but monarch butterflies and numerous other migrants that pass through Lighthouse each fall. Jim and Carol will help you learn how to identify hawks in flight, since that is where many will be seen. 

*Lighthouse generally does not charge for parking after Labor Day.

For and article on the fall Hawk Migration at Lighthouse Point click HERE!