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CT Audubon, Pomfret: Friedman Forest Bird Walk

Friedman Memorial Forest Friedman Memorial Forest, Ashford, CT, United States

Freidman  Forest Bird Walk Friday, May 9, 2025 at 8 A.M. We’ll explore this fantastic Joshua’s Trust preserve.  We are likely to see a Great Blue Heron rookery, and Cerulean and Worm-eating Warblers!  Limited to nine participants. Fee:  $20 CAS members; $30 non-members.   Registration is required. Email Andy Rzeznikiewicz at arzeznikiewicz@ctaudubon.org or call 860-928-4948.

$20 – $30

Hartford Audubon Society: Simsbury River Walk

Simsbury River Walk 46 Drake Hill Rd., Simsbury, CT, United States

May 9 - Fri - 8 -am 46 Drake Hill Rd, Simsbury Park at the Simsbury High School Crew Boathouse across from Drake Hill Rd from Flower Bridge. Do not park at Flower Bridge The Simsbury River Walk provides beautiful and varied birding habitat along the Farmington River floodplain and can be great for warblers and other passerines. Plan ... Read more

Free

Roaring Brook Nature Center: Bird Walk at Cedar Hill Cemetery

Cedar Hill Cemetery 453 Fairfield Avenue, Hartford, United States

Bird Walk Saturday, May 10, 6:30 am   Free – Reservations Encouraged Join Jay Kaplan from Roaring Brook Nature Center for his annual bird walk at Cedar Hill Cemetery.  Jay will lead participants through the ornamental foreground in search of resident and migratory birds. Appropriate hiking shoes and binoculars are strongly recommended. Admission to the program ... Read more

Free
Event Series Audubon CT Greenwich: Spring Migration Bird Tour

Audubon CT Greenwich: Spring Migration Bird Tour

Greenwich Audubon 613 Riversville Road, Greenwich, CT, United States

SATURDAYS, APRIL 5-12-19-26, MAY 3-10 2025. 7 AM - 8:30 AM Join Bird Education Specialist Ryan MacLean 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 others. Binoculars will be available ... Read more

Free

Hartford Audubon Society: Penwood State Park

Penwood State Park 560 Simsbury Road, Bloomfield, CT, United States

May 10 - Sat - 7 am 174 Hartford Rd, Simsbury We will meet in the parking lot. A three hour leisurely bird walk in search of migrant warblers, vireos, thrushes, and flycatchers. Special possibilities include Worm eating Warbler, Swainson's Thrush and both Yellow-billed and Black -billed Cuckoos. This will be easy walking. Paul Cianfaglione pgcianfaglione@gmail.com 860-836-3443

Free

Mattabeseck Audubon Society: Bird Walk at Helen Carlson Sanctuary

Helen Carlson Sanctuary 79 South Road, Portland, United States

Join Elena Coffey for a bird walk at Mattabeseck Audubon Society's Helen Carlson Sanctuary.  This birding hotspot was donated to MAS in 1976 by local resident Helen Carlson to preserve it forever. Shortly thereafter, with a grant from the Rockfall Foundation in Middletown, MAS worked with students from Long Lane School to create a nature ... Read more

Event Series Audubon Shop – Spring Migration Walks – Saturdays

The Audubon Shop: Spring Migration Walks

The Audubon Shop (for Hammonassett trips) 907 Boston Post Rd, Madison, CT, United States

Join Jerry and Co. for a small group Spring Migration Bird Walk at Hammonasset, one of Connecticut’s premier birding “hot spots”. Hammonasset Beach State Park here in Madison is widely regarded as one of the premier birding spots in CT, and springtime migration is a lot of fun. Approximately 240 species of birds occur there annually, ... Read more

$6

CT Audubon, Fairfield: Bird Walk at Smith Richardson

Smith Richardson Preserve 39 Sasco Creek Rd,, Westport, CT, United States

Bird Walk at Smith Richardson Saturday, May 10, 2025 8 to 10 a.m.   Conservation Manager Stefan Martin leads this exploration of the diverse habitats of the Smith Richardson Preserve in Westport. Just a stone’s throw from Long Island Sound we’ll hope to see returning songbirds like warblers and orioles, as well as coastal water birds like ... Read more

$15 – $20

CT Audubon, Deer Pond Farm: Migration Bird Walk

Deer Pond Farm 57 Wakeman Hill Road, Sherman, CT, United States

Migration Bird Walk Saturday May 10, 8-10 a.m. $5 members, $10 non-members Warblers, tanagers, and vireos, oh my! Enjoy peak avian migration season on Deer Pond Farm’s spacious trails. Lori Lichtenauer, Naturalist, will lead this bird walk focused on neotropical migrants. We’ll explore wetland, meadow, and forest habitat to seek out the biggest diversity of ... Read more

$5 – $10

White Memorial Center: Bobbing for Bobolinks

Topsmead State Forest Buell Road, Litchfield, CT, United States

Bobbing for Bobolinks at Apple Hill and Topsmead with Gerri Griswold May 10 @ 8:00 am - 11:00 am Saturday, May 10, 2025   Spend a couple of hours with Gerri in search of this bubbly grassland bird. It’s Bobolink breeding season and the boys should be out in full force putting on a show! Begin hiking ... Read more

CT Audubon, Roger Tory Peterson Estuary Center: Bird Walk, Old Saybrook

Bird Walk in Old Saybrook Saturday, May 10; 9-11 a.m. The Connecticut River is a major migratory flyway for birds heading north in the spring. Situated at the mouth of the river on Long Island Sound, Old Saybrook is one of the first spots these birds hit after their long journeys. The walk will be ... Read more

$13 – $18

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