Join us in partnership with the Greenwich Land Trust for a guided bird tour at GLT’s Converse Brook Preserve. April is the beginning of Spring songbird migration and we will explore the trails of the preserve in search for birds who have just arrived from their long journeys from Central America as well as birds […]
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 […]
Apr 5 – 8 am Great Pond, Simsbury 156 Great Pond Rd, Simsbury Between Laurel Ln & 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 of birds that call this […]
Field Trip – West Rock Ridge State Park – Lake Wintergreen, Hamden – Molly Zahn and Peter Grund April 6 @ 7:30 am - 10:30 am at Lake Wintergreen Join Molly Zahn and Peter Grund for a walk at the Lake Wintergreen area of West Rock Ridge State Park. We will circle the lake and, if there is time, […]
TLGV Acorn Adventure for Families: The Buzz on Bees When: 4/06/2025 @ 2:00 pm Bees are incredible. You can probably thank a bee for the flowers you see and the food you eat. Bees are pollinators and the jobs they do in the world are important. In this Acorn Adventure we'll learn how bees pollinate, make a craft […]
The Gem and Mineral Society of Greater Stamford will hold its monthly meeting on April 8th at 7pm at the Greenwich Library at 101 West Putnam Avenue, Greenwich, CT. Howard Heitner has a new program concerning Rare Earths and their Role in the 21st Century. He will present the program on Tuesday, April 8th […]
Dr. Bernard Goffinet from the UConn Bryology and Lichenology lab will be presenting on mosses and lichens. Attendees will be able to use provided microscopes to investigate some specimens that CBS members will be bringing in. If you have a moss or lichen needing identification, feel free to bring it in a plastic zip lock […]
Wings over Water – Earth Day Showing 6:30 pm and 7:30 pm viewings Bantam Cinema & Arts Center 115 Bantam Lake Road, Bantam CT $10/person As the glaciers retreated at the end of the last ice age, they left an astounding gift of connected rivers, lakes and wetlands across the heartland of North America. Today, […]
The April meeting this month will be on April 25, at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station's Jones Auditorium. This will be our annual meeting in which we elect (mostly) new officers for the upcoming year. Besides the business meeting, this will be a social gathering with a potluck dinner, in which the floor will […]
CT Ornithological Association Workshop (In-person): Aerial Insectivores Scranton Memorial Library 801 Boston Post Rd, Madison, United States Check back soon for more information about this upcoming event. This will be an in-person workshop held in the Community Room of the Scranton Memorial Library in Madison, Connecticut. The workshop will also include a field-trip to the local […]
Cancelled due to rain forecast Saturday, 26 April 2025, 10 a.m., Colebrook Searching for Spring flowers and early shrubs and trees. Bring a lunch and water bottle. We will start with a walk on the abandoned Mt Pisgah dirt road. (Do not drive to Mt Pisgah dirt road as the parking is very limited.) In […]
Join us for a *FREE* in-person workshop to learn more about Aerial Insectivores, specifically those that we can find here in Connecticut. The presentation will be led by COA’s Joe Attwater. Joe is a Connecticut native and the Conservation & Education Coordinator for the Connecticut Audubon Society’s Roger Tory Peterson Estuary Center in Old Lyme. […]