We invite all of you to join us for our annual spring bird walks every Saturday morning in May.  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.

2008 Spring Bird Walk Schedule

- April 26th
- May 3rd
- May 10th
- May 17th
- May 24th
- May 31st

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

Red-tailed Hawk, West Rock ©jimzipp.com

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

$2 per person
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.

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

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