• Birding With Your Phone Workshop – 2/26/2022 Report

    2/26/2022 Birding with Your Phone Workshop - Report Ever go birding and see someone bent over their phone, doing something about birds but you can’t tell what it is?  You’re not alone – many birders are using many apps to improve our skills and log our observations.  This was the impetus for creating our Birding […]

  • Feb 26, 2022  Birding With Your Phone – Saturday 10:30 am VIA ZOOM

    Feb 26, 2022          Birding With Your Phone  - Saturday - 10:30 am VIA ZOOM MEETING Join Audubon Connecticut’s Ken Elkins for a two-hour workshop to learn how to use a number of birding apps on your smart phone. Apps will include eBird, popular field guide apps, “birding by ear” apps, iNaturalist, […]

  • Birding with Your Phone Workshop Report: 2-26-2022

    Birding with Your Phone Workshop, 2-26-2022 Ever go birding and see someone bent over their phone, doing something about birds but you can’t tell what it is?  You’re not alone – many birders are using many apps to improve our skills and log our observations.  This was the impetus for creating our Birding With Your […]

  • Hybrid (in person) and Zoom Meeting: Recovery Road: A Photographer’s History of Ospreys in Connecticut – 3/8/2022

    PLEASE NOTE:  Hybrid (in person) and Zoom Meeting: Recovery Road - A Photographer's History of Ospreys in Connecticut Social Time at 7:00 pm St James's Episcopal Church,1018 Farmington Ave, West Hartford, CT. Speaker:  Bob MacDonnell A fateful bike ride crossed paths with the Osprey’s road to recovery and sparked Bob’s 30-year passion for photographing birds. […]

  • March 13,2022 Daylight Savings Bird-a-Thon Sunday – All Day

    Mar 13 , 2022   Daylight Savings Bird-a-Thon Sun All Day All of Hartford County Join Hartford Audubon  for a fun one day birding competition to celebrate the return of Daylight Savings Time!   Form teams of 2-4 people, dress up and name them with a smile in mind.   Compete and report results.  1 point for every […]

  • March 19, 2022- Woodcocks at Nod Brook – Saturday – 7pm

    Mar 19, 2022   Woodcocks at Nod Brook       Saturday 7 pm 82 Hopmeadow St (Rt 10), Simsbury Back of the first parking lot of the Tower Office Park See the unique mating display or “sky dance” of the American Woodcock on a relatively short evening trip. Short distance (0.25 mile).  Lasts about 1 hour after dusk. […]

  • March 20, 2022  Silver Sands- Sunday 8 am

    Mar 20, 2022   Silver Sands  Sunday -  8 am Silver Sands State Park, 1 Silver Sands Pkwy, Milford Meet in main parking lot Contact Maggie to verify this date.  This is a good trip to try for sea ducks and sparrows while hoping for a Rough-Legged Hawk. Dress warmly. Flat shoreline walk approximately 2 miles […]

  • Myths and Misconceptions of Black Bears – 3/22/2022

    Zoom Program - March 22 - 7 pm Speaker:  Spencer Peter Watch for e-mail with Zoom link Myths and Misconceptions of Black Bears The North American Bear Center (NABC) in Ely, Wisconsin, is dedicated to advancing the long-term survival of bears worldwide by replacing misconceptions with scientific facts about bears, their role in ecosystems, and […]

  • Mar 26, 2022 – Sachuest Point, RI Saturday – 8:30 am

    Mar 26      Sachuest Point, Rhode Island Sat 8:30 am 769 Sachuest Point Rd, Middletown, RI Sachuest Point Visitor Center parking lot GPS Coordinates 41.479909, -71.243489 If you are looking for colorful, easy to see birds, then Sachuest Point National Wildlife Refuge is the place to be. The refuge is home to the second largest wintering […]

  • Apr 9, 2022 – Great Pond, Simsbury – Saturday 8 am

    Apr 9, 2022   Great Pond, Simsbury   Saturday  8 am 156 Great Pond Rd, Simsbury Between Laurel Ln and Old Farms Rd Meet in parking lot at end of entrance dirt road An easy walk over a newly widened road leads to Great Pond where we will see waterfowl, shorebirds, migrating warblers and the many types […]

  • Invisible Birds – An Ornithologist’s Reading of Ralph Elllison’s Invisible Man – 4/12/2022

    Invisible Birds - An Ornithologist’s Reading of Ralph Elllison’s Invisible Man Social Time at 7:00 pm St James's Episcopal Church,1018 Farmington Ave, West Hartford, CT. Speaker:  David Spector David will focus on Ralph Ellison’s 1952 novel, Invisible Man, a classic in American literature. Attention to the birds in this work are evidence of how Ellison […]