Fall Bird Walks at Hammonasset, available at The Audubon Shop for bird watchers, Madison CT

How to Learn Bird Song

How to Learn Bird Song is your next step after learning by sight. For most of us, hearing birds goes hand in hand with seeing them. After all, who doesn’t…

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Rainbow Driftwood Wind Chime, available at The Audubon Shop, the best shop for bird watchers, Madison CT

Adding to our Gift Department

Adding to our Gift Department is a fun and inspirational project. Especially in recent years, we have been able to find local talented artisans with an eye for nature. Pictured…

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Bird Nesting Boxes, available at The Audubon Shop, the best shop for birdwatchers, Madison CT

How to Place and Maintain your Bird Houses

How to Place and Maintain your Bird Houses (aka nesting boxes) is easy to understand and will ensure success for your cavity nesting birds.   When considering placing a new…

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Male Eastern Bluebird perched below his bluebird house.

Nesting Box 101

Nesting Box 101 will offer you the nuts and bolts of how to place and maintain nesting boxes, also known as bird houses, in your yard.   We often field…

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What it's Like to Be a Bird, by David Alle3n Sibley, available at The Audubon Shop, the best shop for birdwatchers, Madison, CT

What it’s Like to be a Bird!

We’re pumped about What it’s Like to be a Bird! The bird book for birders and non-birders alike that will excite and inspire by providing a new and deeper understanding…

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Curbside Pickup, available at The Audubon Shop, the best shop for birdwatchers, Madison CT

Curbside Pickup is now available for all products

Greetings! We have changed our entire website to include Curbside Pickup for all of our products. You are able to simply order and pay for a product on our website.…

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Spring Bird Calls or What the heck was That???

As winter is waning, you may notice that birds begin marking a new season by singing at dawn once again. In late January to mid February here in CT, American…

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peanut feeder

How to Attract Birds to Your Yard

In order to attract birds to your yard, you need to understand their basic needs. Attracting birds to your yard is simple. You will not only enhance your habitat, but…

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birding hammonasset beach state park

Connecticut’s 2018 ‘State of the Birds’ Report is encouraging

Each year (annually since 2006), the dedicated people who work and volunteer for CT Audubon begin gathering information for their important report, CT State of the Birds. The 2018 edition…

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Useful Tools of the Trade

  You’ve got your binoculars or your scope, now – how to care for them? Your optics will give you years of good service with a little thoughtful care.  First,…

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