String Fencing Dates – Volunteers Wanted!
Volunteers needed! Want an excuse to come bird with us and CT DEEP on the beach this April? Here it is… String fencing and signage erection dates for Connecticut beaches in spring 2016 are as follows and we need all the volunteers we can get! Wednesday, April 6th, 10:30 – Long Beach, Stratford Meet at the far west parking area. Monday, April 11th, 10:00 – Sandy/Morse Points, West Haven Meet in the parking lot. Friday, April 15th, 10:00 – Bluff Point, Groton Meet in the parking area and CT DEEP will shuttle people out to the beach. Remember that any and all volunteers...
Read MoreAAfCW Training Completed
On Saturday, March 12, the Audubon Alliance for Coastal Waterbirds (Audubon Connecticut and the Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History), the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, and the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection completed successful training sessions for many of our fantastic past and new volunteer shorebird and tern monitors. Our collective staffs welcomed nearly 80 volunteers to Stratford Point, and thankfully we may end up near 100 regular monitors for the 2016 season. These citizen scientists and educators will hit the beaches come April,...
Read MoreRadiant Sunset
This radiant sunset is from last weekend at Stratford Point while overlooking the grasslands and soon to be pollinator meadows. It will be a very exciting year for the property as it is continually improved and studied by Audubon Connecticut, Sacred Heart University, site owner DuPont, and RTPI. We will be helping birds, insects, marine life, mammals, and so much more with multiple thrilling projects to hopefully talk about more in-depth soon. If I didn’t hate waking up at 5AM I would go snap a sunrise shot, so let’s pretend this is the rising light on a site that is about to...
Read MoreVolunteers Needed! Shorebird Monitoring 2016
The Audubon Alliance for Coastal Waterbirds 2016 monitoring and stewardship season is about to begin! Please see the USFWS news release below for details, and please pass this along to any new volunteers you feel would be interested in joining us. We hope all our past monitors will be returning this year after yet another record-setting season in 2015. We can only keep this success going with your help! Spend your summer days at the beach and help protect a federally threatened species! The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and its partners are seeking volunteers to monitor piping plovers and...
Read MoreWinter Birds Wrap-up
Here is a review of some of the great birds seen so far this winter in Connecticut: http://wtnh.com/2016/02/29/winter-birds-wrap-up/ Be sure to click on the “next page” buttons at the bottom to see all of the photos. This is our first post on WTNH.com. Please share so Audubon Connecticut and RTPI can make a big splash on the new platform!
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