Ivy House Bird House, available at The Audubon Shop, the best shop for bird watchers, Madison CT

How to Make Your Yard a Haven for Birds

Imagine walking out into your yard on a late spring morning, seeing and hearing birds, butterflies and and bees, or watching Bluebirds bringing nesting materials in to start a new…

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Aspects Quick Clean Big Tube, available at The Audubon Shop, the best shop for birdwatchers, Madison CT

How to Identify a Bird

A new bird feeder or nesting box certainly brightens up the yard! And, so begins a new hobby – bird identification. Here’s a step by step process on how to…

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Answering questions, available at The Audubon Shop for bird watchers, Madison CT

Press 1 if Woodpeckers are Pecking on your House….

Jerry and the Audubon Shop Crew often joke that during the bird-centric season of spring we should have 2 options on our answering system: “Press 1 if a woodpecker is…

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The Best Hummingbird Feeders

We often get asked, “Which are the best hummingbird feeders?” Our first answer is, “The one that will be easiest for you to maintain.” We follow that up with, “Where…

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Pileated Woodpecker female, on a bird walk with The Audubon Shop, the best shop for birders, Madison, CT

Tips for Helping Injured Wildlife or Finding a Young Bird

We often get calls from well meaning customers starting in March, asking how they can help injured birds or nestlings that appear to be abandoned. It’s always best to leave…

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Bird Walks

This article was written in 2021, but look for our seasonal bird walks every year! Our Bird Walks are a yearly, seasonal event and occur from April through mid June…

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A World on The Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds, available at The Audubon Shop, the best shop for bird watchers, Madison CT

A World on the Wing – An Exciting New Book on Migration

A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds is an exhilarating exploration of the science and wonder of global bird migration. Drawing on his own extensive fieldwork,…

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Introducing Kids to Nature

Introducing Kids to Nature is so very easy and rewarding. Giving names to all of the things we see right outside in our own yard and neighborhood is a fun…

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Wrap Around Squirrel Baffle, available at The Audubon Shop, the best shop for nature lovers, Madison CT

How to Keep Squirrels off of Feeders Forever

Want to know How to Keep Squirrels off of Feeders Forever? Of course you do… Squirrels…if they only knew that a whole industry has arisen devoted to keeping them off…

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Hummingbird Feeders, available at The Audubon Shop, the best store for birders, Madison, CT

Where are the hummingbirds?

In early June we start fielding phone calls at the shop about hummingbirds’ arrival here in CT, as in: “Where are the hummingbirds?” We are often so enthusiastic about seeing…

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