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May 26, 2017 – You’ve been hearing from us lately about the substantial risks that Piping Plovers face, not just in Connecticut but on the beaches in the Bahamas where they spend the winter. “The Piping Plover,” Peter Marra, director of the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center, said recently, “is really just hanging on by a […]

Estuary Explorations: Up the River Banningwood Preserve, Lyme June 10, 9 – 1 pm Venture up the Connecticut River Valley to discover the rich variety of habitats at the 102-acre Banningwood Preserve in Lyme. The idyllic Roaring Brook (a tributary of Whalebone Cove) and its associated intact floodplain forest will be showcased on this excursion, […]

learn about spring warblers, other migrants, and estuary and forest ecology. Register online today.  

We would like to thank the land trusts in our area for letting us use their properties for regional school children participating our Science in Nature programs. We have walked the trails and explored rotting logs, geologic outcrops, tree-fall forest gaps, vernal pools, and stream meanders on Lyme, Old Lyme and Essex Land Trust properties. […]

Mondays, through May 22 10 – 10:45 a.m. (no class April 10) Ages 2-3 with a participating adult We’ll venture out into the sanctuary and listen for frogs calling, see turtles sunning themselves, and watch for birds journeying back from their long   winter travels. Inside activities may include stories, crafts, games, experiments, and live animal visitors. […]

Buy tickets here or at the door. Join us for “Bird Protection & Outdoor Cats,” a talk by ornithologist Peter Marra, Wednesday, May 24, 2017, at 7 p.m., at Trinity College’s Boyer Auditorium, Hartford. Marra is co-author of Cat Wars: The Devastating Consequences of a Cuddly Killer, published by Princeton University Press. Cat Wars tells […]

Sunday, May 7 1 p.m. Gregory Nobles, author of “John James Audubon: The Nature of the American Woodsman”, believes that one of Audubon’s greatest creations was himself.  Nobles explores the irony of Audubon’s true nature: themas who took so much time and trouble to depict birds so carefully left us a bold, but deceptive, picture […]

Join us for “Bird Protection & Outdoor Cats,” a talk by Smithsonian ornithologist Peter Marra, Wednesday, May 24, at 7 p.m., at Trinity College’s Boyer Auditorium (Life Sciences Center), Hartford. Marra is co-author of Cat Wars: The Devastating Consequences of a Cuddly Killer, published by Princeton University Press. Cat Wars tells the story of the […]

Arguably the best part of Spring is the new life– trees are budding, daffodils have started poking out of the ground, birds are singing, and, of course, there’s the indescribable smell of earth after it rains.  But there is more happening than we realize. Have you ever driven home on a rainy night and seen […]

Connecticut Audubon Fairfield’s Summer Camp is a ten-week nature-based summer day program for children ages 3-12. A variety of themed-weeks are offered throughout the summer. Teachers will plan and teach a variety of topics within the weekly theme that allow children to experience the outdoors/nature through hands-on activities, games, hikes, guided nature explorations, arts and […]

April 30, 2018 – Michelle Eckman, the Connecticut Audubon Society’s director of education and interim director of the Center at Glastonbury, has been selected by U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy for a citizens’ advisory panel on conservation. As a member of the new Land Conservation in Connecticut Council, Eckman will meet with Murphy quarterly in Hartford […]

Identifying Environmental Impacts of High Speed Rail Tunnel/Bypass On December 16, 2016, the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) released its Preferred Alternative for improving passenger rail travel along the Northeast Corridor. This proposal would create a new 50-mile segment bypassing coastal southeastern Connecticut via an inland route between Old Saybrook and Kenyon, Rhode Island. The FRA […]

April 11, 12, 13 (Tuesday – Thursday) 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Ages 5 – 9 When school’s closed the fun begins! Each day is filled with animals, fun, and friends. Climbing, jumping, crawling, and flying; animals move through their habitat in many different ways. Explore the variety of ways animals move as they find […]

March 25 This weekend’s Birding Basics walk might have been chilly, but it was worth it, as the RTPEC welcomed back some of the first ospreys of the year! The March walk took us to Founder’s Memorial Park in Old Saybrook, and our bird list included: Osprey Ring-Necked Duck Common Merganser Mute Swan Bufflehead Mallard […]