A predicted day of bad weather moved NHBC’s much-anticipated River Road field trip forward from Saturday to Sunday, May 10. Nevertheless, twelve birders arrived at Railroad Street in Kent before 7 a.m. on a beautiful Sunday morning, where a Cape May Warbler produced itself near the parking lot. A stop at the Kent Bridge gave us nice views of Cliff… ..
Trip Reports
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May
May
On Sunday, May 17, 2026, 28 interested birders participated in the field trip to the Naugatuck State Forest West Block. We hiked along several footpaths as well as the gravel section of Hunter’s Mountain Road. The hike took us through brushy fields and forested habitat and past scenic woodland ponds, and a power line cut. We observed a nice variety… ..
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May
May
With assistance from the Shore Line Trolley Museum, the New Haven Bird Club and the Friends of Farm River Estuary held a joint birding and trolley-riding field trip on May 3. Two antique trolley cars carried our huge group of forty-two from the museum to the end of the line in the East Haven Marsh Wildlife Area. From there, we… ..
On Sunday, April 26, fifteen New Haven Bird Club members and visitors set out to tour the Kellogg Environmental Center Grounds and the trails across the street in Osbornedale State Park. Though it wasn’t a super-birdy day, we got good looks at a male Common Merganser in the Housatonic River below, a couple of male Eastern Towhees (by virtue of… ..
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May
May
On Saturday, April 18, around 30 birders and geology enthusiasts participated in the Geology and Birds walk at the Branford Quarry Preserve surrounding the active Stony Creek Granite Quarry. The weather was cool and overcast, but no wind. Stony Creek Granite is a beautiful architectural building stone and widely exposed in the preserve. Participants were also able to watch the… ..
Thirty hardy birders started out on March 28 from the Edgewood Park tennis court parking lot to make the second of our twice-annual explorations of this often surprising park. At 37 degrees and breezy when we started, the feeling of sun from time to time on our faces and backs made us all happy. Our circuit from the tennis courts… ..
Hammonasset State Park Field Trip Report On Saturday, March 14th, 37 (!) birders got together at this wonderful local park for a morning of birding. The remarkable turnout can be attributed to the long, cold winter we had and the resulting cancellation of several of our outdoor activities in February. Our large and enthusiastic group was rewarded as we observed… ..
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Jan
Jan
126th Annual New Haven Christmas Bird Count Report On Saturday, December 20, 2025, 98 birders (most of them NHBC members) participated in the Christmas Bird Count in New Haven. The participants fanned out in our typically well-organized fashion and thoroughly covered the fourteen areas within the count circle. Some people started before dawn and finished after sunset while others went… ..
Hammonasset Beach State Park Bird Walk 10/4/2025 New Haven Bird Club Eighteen individuals, including myself, braved the summer-like warm weather to find birds. Working overtime we netted 49 species including Pectoral Sandpiper, Willet, Black-bellied Plover, Least Sandpiper, Dunlin, Greater Yellowlegs, American Kestrel, Merlin, a large flock of Golden-crowned Kinglets, Marsh Wren, White-crowned, Savannah, and Swamp Sparrows, Common Yellowthroat and Yellow-rumped… ..
Brickyard Point Field Trip Report – August 6, 2025 On Wednesday, August 6th, about 20 members of the NHBC went to this local preserve in North Haven. A former industrial waste site, it is now home to freshwater ponds and weedy fields and meadows. There are wide gravel paths that make it easy to survey the property. The property is… ..