One Bird, One Place
July 10, 2020 — The weekend is here and you might need fresh ideas about how to quickly satisfy your bird urge.
We can help. We’re introducing a new feature: “One Bird, One Place.”
Each week several experts from Connecticut Audubon’s staff and board, or other friends, will each make a suggestion for where to see one interesting bird in one specific place — one bird, one place.
The idea is that it will be short, sweet, and helpful.
We’ll post it here, on our blog. And if you sign up, we’ll text you a link.
Get ONE BIRD, ONE PLACE via text!
Red-eyed Vireo | Bluff Point State Park, Groton. The treetops are alive with birds singing as you make your way around the trail loop at Bluff Point. | Suggested by Allison Black | |
Great Egret | Listed as threatened in Connecticut. They can be found in nearly any tidal marsh along the coast. Hammonasset Beach State Park and our Milford Point Coastal Center are great places to look. | Suggested by Patrick Comins | |
Glossy Ibis | Look for it in coastal marshes like those at Hammonasset Beach State Park. | Suggested by Andy Griswold | |
Northern Rough-winged Swallow | Bernie O’Rourke Drive, Middletown. They nest in the drainage pipes built into the retaining wall next to the Coginchaug River, behind Palmer Field, near Washington Street. | Suggested by Jim Arrigoni |
This week’s contributors
Allison Black is outreach adminstrator at our Roger Tory Peterson Estuary Center in Old Lyme, and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Connecticut Ornithological Association.
Patrick Comins is executive director of the Connecticut Audubon Society.
Andy Griswold is director of Connecticut Audubon’s EcoTravel program.
Jim Arrigoni is a conservation biologist at Deer Pond Farm and the Roger Tory Peterson Estuary Center.