While we’re asleep, opossums are awake, exploring, and searching for food. Learn all about these often misunderstood creatures of the night from FWR owners, Pam and Bill Lefferts, and members of their wildlife educational team. Best of all, meet Brandi and Brigitte, non-releasable opossums, who could not survive in the wild. At the end of the program, you may have a photo taken with them.
We had so many people the last time FWR was here, registration is now required to assure your seats for this popular program. Click here to register or call 860-928-4948. Fee: $5 CAS members; $10 non-members; free for children aged ten or younger. The program is recommended for children over five.
With Andy as your guide, visit locations around the sanctuary looking for birds. Bring binoculars and wear drab-colored clothing. No registration required. Fee: $5 CAS members; $10 non-members.
Parents, grandparents, guardians, and caregivers come out for some fresh air with your toddler, take a nature walk, and enjoy an activity or story. Join retired Pomfret Community School kindergarten teacher, Carolyn Otto, for a morning of fun and learning. Dress for the weather as many activities are outdoors. Registration requested by calling 860-928-4948. Fee: $5 per child per class or $20 per child per five-week session. (Fee is for one toddler with one accompanying adult.)
Join Andy and his fellow banders as they capture and band migrating Saw-whet Owls. See these amazing owls up close. Bring your camera. Space is limited. Fee: $20 members; $30 non-members.
Join Sierra Club members for a late afternoon autumn walk on the final day of daylight saving time for this year. This event is weather dependent. Register with Trail Wood or the Sierra Club’s Susan Eastwood, sce4321@gmail.com. Fee: Free CAS and Sierra Club members; $5 non-members.
Parents, grandparents, guardians, and caregivers come out for some fresh air with your toddler, take a nature walk, and enjoy an activity or story. Join retired Pomfret Community School kindergarten teacher, Carolyn Otto, for a morning of fun and learning. Dress for the weather as many activities are outdoors. Registration requested by calling 860-928-4948. Fee: $5 per child per class or $20 per child per five-week session. (Fee is for one toddler with one accompanying adult.)
Join a group of acoustic music lovers to play popular songs written when the Teales lived at Trail Wood, 1959-1993. A PDF of chords and lyrics will be provided. Participation is limited to ten participants per session.Registration isrequired. Please register by emailing trailwood@ctaudubon.org. Free.
Join Andy and his fellow banders as they capture and band migrating Saw-whet Owls. See these amazing owls up close. Bring your camera. Space is limited. Fee: $20 members; $30 non-members.
Parents, grandparents, guardians, and caregivers come out for some fresh air with your toddler, take a nature walk, and enjoy an activity or story. Join retired Pomfret Community School kindergarten teacher, Carolyn Otto, for a morning of fun and learning. Dress for the weather as many activities are outdoors. Registration requested by calling 860-928-4948. Fee: $5 per child per class or $20 per child per five-week session. (Fee is for one toddler with one accompanying adult.)
Highly studied, much debated, yet skepticism persists in the general population about the reality and causes of changes in climatic activity. Focusing on the last century, Dr. Jasper will give clarity to the effects on the health of our Southeastern Connecticut coastal environments.
Flight of the Godwit Tracking Epic Shorebird Migrations By Bruce M. Beehler
Soar across 46 North American territories to uncover the secrets of 7 magnificent shorebirds, the world’s greatest nonstop travelers Flying more than 8,000 miles from Alaska to eastern Australia without stopping to eat or rest, the Bar-tailed Godwit holds the record for the longest nonstop migration of any land bird in the world. Flight of the Godwit invites readers on ornithologist Bruce M. Beehler’s awe-inspiring journey in search of North America’s largest and farthest-flying shorebirds.
Driving 35,000 miles between 2019 to 2023, Beehler sought birds he dubs the “Magnificent Seven”:
Hudsonian Godwit
Bar-tailed Godwit
Marbled Godwit
Whimbrel
Long-billed Curlew
Bristle-thighed Curlew
Upland Sandpiper
Beehler interweaves colorful fieldwork stories and rich details on local culture with the natural history and biology of shorebirds—including evolution, the physics of migration, orientation, homing, foraging, diet, nesting, parental care, wintering, staging, elusive “super-migrators,” and the importance of conservation efforts.
Join a group of acoustic music lovers to play popular songs written when the Teales lived at Trail Wood, 1959-1993. A PDF of chords and lyrics will be provided. Participation is limited to ten participants per session.Registration isrequired. Please register by emailing trailwood@ctaudubon.org. Free.
