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June 10, 2022 — Black Skimmers are amazing-looking and are uncommon enough to be worth watching for. It helps if you pick the right spot. In Connecticut that’s often the Milford Point Coastal Center or Sandy Point in West Haven.

June 9, 2022 — This is such a great time of year for gardening and yard work. These two videos are on our YouTube channel, and we want to bring them to your attention again. They include practical advice to improve your property for wildlife.

June 8, 2022 — Look for Purple Martins in and around any of several dozen colonies of man-made houses or gourds throughout Connecticut. There’s a colony of 71 gourds at the Coastal Center at Milford Point. Connecticut Audubon staff and volunteers check the nests weekly throughout the breeding season; as of the most recent check, on June 3, 26 gourds had nests. Nest building is likely  to continue and increase for a couple of weeks — in 2021, the colony had 44 nests, and in 2020 it has 37.

June 6, 2022 — Great weather, energetic and enthusiastic participants, and one truly amazing bird species added up to a great Migration Madness weekend. One hundred and eight people participated in the weekend’s Birdathon, the fundraising centerpiece of the weekend celebration. Read more to see the prize winners and complete leaderboard for the 5th Annual Migration Madness Birdathon.

In the Sanctuaries. May 26, 2022 — The shorebirds on the Milford Point sandbar need your help again. It’s early in the season but there are already 11 Piping Plover nests and two American Oystercatcher nests on the sandbar. Dozens of migratory shorebirds are feeding and resting there now too.

We’re trying to balance the birds’ needs with the understandable wish on the part of birders and others to visit and view the birds. So please be careful to avoid roped off nesting areas and nests protected by wire enclosures.