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 brood. Sit down to enjoy your first cup of tea or coffee of the day, take an outdoor lunch break, or make an inviting space…

Over the last year as people have been spending more time at home, a new bird feeder or nesting box certainly brightened up the yard. And, so begins a new hobby – bird identification. One quickly realizes that there are birds right in our own backyards and neighborhoods that we may not have noticed or…

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 banging on your house and waking you up in the morning” “Press 2 if a (insert Cardinal, Robin, Mockingbird, Bluebird) is pecking on your window…

Wherever you live in the US you’ll have opportunities to see and attract hummingbirds, one of our favorite spring migrants here in CT. A bird that weighs well under 1 oz., yet has the energy to migrate hundreds of miles never ceases to fascinate us. With their all-too-short visits here in the north, their aerial…

Spring is the time of renewal in the natural world in much of North America. The month of March finds many bird migrants winging their way back into the north from Central and South America, to nest. Our year-round resident birds are busy, too.  Just take a listen out the window on a March morning…

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It’s Spring! Eastern Phoebes are back in CT singing their telltale song, Killdeer can be seen especially down along the shore, Osprey are coming in, Bald Eagles are nesting, Great Horned Owls should be well into caring for young and….it’s time to get OUTSIDE! This spring we’re offering two weekly bird walks – Thursday and…

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, in A World on the Wing author Weidensaul unveils with dazzling prose the miracle of nature taking place over our heads. An epic reflection on…

Nothing excites us more than introducing kids to nature, and giving names to all of the things they see right outside in their own yards. We all were inspired to notice nature by someone in our lives, whether it was a parent or grandparent, aunt or uncle, or a fun scout leader or teacher. We’ve…

Squirrels…if they only knew that a whole industry has arisen devoted to keeping them off of bird feeders. A little cooperation would be appreciated, guys… Over the past 33 years we here at The Audubon Shop have tried and tested many types of bird feeders and squirrel baffles, and have come up with some great…