1) First, if you missed our training sessions last week - especially potential new monitors and volunteers - please watch the new monitor training from March 14 here on YouTube. It is just over 90 minutes and can be a great refresher for previous monitors, too.
2) Please provide us with your physical mailing address so we can provide you with a new identification badge for 2020 and necessary paperwork if you did not already receive it. Please indicate if you have already filled out the paperwork, or can download it via our blog and print instead (once it is online). Please also let us know if you have a lanyard already from previous seasons, and if you only require the paper ID for 2020. We will ask that you submit this paperwork to CT DEEP either via snail mail or electronically if you can scan the documents and email them to laura.saucier@ct.gov. The mailing address to send paperwork back will be: Laura Saucier, PO Box 1550, Burlington, CT 06013
3) We have a very high number of monitors this year which is wonderful! It will help to ensure widespread beach coverage. It makes the scheduling process a bit slower, and please continue to send in your desired beaches, dates, AM or PM times, here to this email address at ctwaterbirds@gmail.com.
The list of available beaches include:
- Sherwood Island State Park in Westport
- Pleasure Beach in Bridgeport - accessible via seasonal free Bridgeport water taxi at 1 Seaview Avenue, Bridgeport, or by walking approximately one mile from Long Beach in Stratford
- Long Beach in Stratford
- Russian Beach in Stratford
- Short Beach in Stratford
- Milford Point in Milford
- Silver Sands State Park in Milford
- Sandy/Morse Points in West Haven
- Bluff Park State Park in Groton
- Waterford Town Beach in Waterford
4) If you are looking to visit Sandy/Morse Points, please provide your vehicle information (make/model) and license plate information, including state, as well as your mailing address above, to receive a necessary parking pass from West Haven. Do not visit until you have this as you will be ticketed.
5) Please note that CT DEEP Wildlife Division has been told that we cannot have volunteers assist in setting up string fencing and signage this year. CT DEEP and AAfCW staff will be handling this slowly but surely as the next few weeks progress. We are sorry to those who had been planning to help, and we will greatly appreciate your patience as this will be a slower than usual process.
When a decision is made pertaining to field training of new volunteers with CT DEEP and AAfCW staff, we will let you know. We will work within the confines of what is permissible as the season progresses. If certain beaches are closed, we will adapt as we go. This is a dynamic societal situation, though we all appreciate the fact spending time outdoors alone with our birds may be a terrific activity for all involved. Thank you again!
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