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Bring the kids to learn how to sight and identify waterfowl on Bantam Lake. After scanning the lake for waterfowl, we will walk around White Memorial’s Point Folly, located on North Shore Road in Bantam. Bring binoculars, if you have them (LHAS may have some you can borrow) and dress for the weather conditions. Meet by the ... Read more
Who: Dave Tripp, Jr., Board and almost life-long member of LHAS; committee member of CT's ARCC; founding member of the CT Big Day team, The Raven Lunatics. Photographer, traveler and leader of several birding trips to exotic countries, in his spare time Dave is Torrington's Deputy Fire Chief. Description: Want to help LHAS count ... Read more
Children and parents are invited to experience this wholesome family-centered citizen science adventure. We will meet at the White Memorial A.B. Ceder Room (lower floor of the museum building) for a brief orientation. Then we will walk to the feeders outside the museum and around Ongley Pond to count birds by sight, using binoculars, and by ... Read more
Barkhamsted, CT (CTBA) Compiler: David Tripp, Jr. dtrippjr@gmail.com (Litchfield Hills Audubon Society)
Looking forward to a fresh start in 2025? Celebrate the new year in the outdoors with a First Day Hike at Boyd Woods. Kids and adults are invited to join leaders Rich and Debbie Martin for a fun, invigorating hike through the woods. They will point out hidden treasures along the way. We never know ... Read more
Where: Litchfield Community Center, 421 Bantam Road (Rte 202), Litchfield, CT 0675 Presented by Corrie Folsom-O'Keefe, Director of Bird Conservation for the state office of the National Audubon Society Corrie will describe Audubon’s conservation efforts along the coast. Connecticut’s coastal habitats and the bird species that depend on them are facing numerous threats. For birds that nest ... Read more
Join Russ Naylor to view our national bird in suitable habitat at the Shepaug Dam at Lake Zoar in Southbury. We’ll also be likely to view Common Ravens, displaying Common Mergansers and American Black Ducks, a resident Peregrine Falcon, and other visiting winter birds. As a bonus, we might be treated to a live birds of ... Read more
It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane—no, it’s an eagle!! Bald eagles were once so endangered that many considered whether to replace them as America’s national symbol. The ongoing story of their recovery as a species and CT’s healthy eagle population is a comeback story worth hearing. Join Ginny Apple, a Master Wildlife Conservationist with the State Department of Energy ... Read more
Boyd Woods continues to be one of the best hotspots in Litchfield County for bird species. Join Rich and Debbie Martin at the sanctuary to participate in this year’s Great Backyard Bird Count. We’ll be sure to see many birds from our wonderful bird blind at the well-stocked feeding station, but we’ll also venture out to ... Read more
Dave Tripp will once again escort us around the Newburyport, Amesbury, and Salisbury areas in search of wintering northern birds. In the past, this trip has seen rare birds like Great Gray Owl, Boreal Chickadee, Varied Thrush, Townsend’s Solitaire, and Harris’ Sparrow. Other uncommon birds encountered in the past are Short-eared Owls, “White-winged” Gulls, Barrow’s Goldeneye, ... Read more
Join Russ Naylor to view our national bird in suitable habitat at the Shepaug Dam at Lake Zoar in Southbury. We’ll also be likely to view Common Ravens, displaying Common Mergansers and American Black Ducks, a resident Peregrine Falcon, and other visiting winter birds. As a bonus, we might be treated to a live birds of prey ... Read more
