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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

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: Walk – Penwood State Park

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

New Haven Bird Club: River Road – Travels along a Riparian Woodland Corridor

May 10 @ 7:30 am - 1:00 pm River Road in Kent along the Housatonic River provides a major north-south riparian corridor for spring migration. River Road has produced a nice variety of Northwestern Connecticut nesting species including Acadian and Least Flycatchers; Yellow-throated and Blue-headed Vireos; Winter Wren; and Cerulean, Golden-winged, and Worm-eating Warblers. The vast uninterrupted ... Read more

Free

CT Audubon Society – 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 egrets ... Read more

$15 – $20

CT Audubon Society – Deer Pond: 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

CT Audubon Society – Birdcraft: Bird Banding Demonstration

Birdcraft Sanctuary 314 Unquowa Road, Fairfield, CT, United States

Bird Banding Demonstration at Birdcraft Saturday, May 10, 2025 (rain date May 17) 8 to 10 a.m. Free program Judy Richardson and her team offer a fascinating, up-close view of how bird banding works. Watch as birds are gently captured in the Birdcraft Sanctuary, their measurements are recorded, and they are fitted with an identification band ... Read more

Free

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 to ... Read more

Hartford Audubon Society: Field Trip – Mount Auburn/Plum Island MA

Mount Auburn 580 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

May 10 - Sat 8 am 580 Mt Auburn St, Cambridge, MA Mount Auburn Cemetery entrance inside front gate. After cemetery we drive to Plum Island, Newburyport, MA Mount Auburn Cemetery is famous as a Spring migration hotspot with many species of warblers present. From there we will drive (1 hr) to Plum Island in Newburyport to see more ... Read more

Free

Audubon CT Sharon: World Migratory Bird Day!

325 Corwall Bridge Road, Sharon, CT 325 Cornwall Bridge Road, Sharon, CT, United States

Join us in celebrating the arrival of migratory birds with partnering nonprofit organizations, businesses, and artisans! Each year, World Migratory Bird Day offers a new theme that connects us to meaningful conservation actions to protect birds. This year’s theme is Shared Spaces: Creating Bird Friendly Cities and Communities, and the focal species include the American ... Read more

Menunkatuck Audubon Society: World Migratory Bird Day

College Woods 41 Cold Spring Street, New Haven, United States

World Migratory Bird Day will be celebrated on May 10th in the spring and October 11th in fall. The conservation theme this year is Shared Spaces: Creating Bird-Friendly Cities and Communities. This year’s theme promotes the importance of a healthy coexistence between people and birds by focusing on creating bird-friendly cities and communities. Bird friendly practices ... Read more