Field Season Concludes

Today is September 1, and we are now at the end of the 2020 field season for the Audubon Alliance for Coastal Waterbirds. This has been a complicated season, and I want to thank all of you very much for dealing with the ups and downs of a confusing, ever-changing, and extremely busy year. It was tough on birds and people, with restrictions on an already reduced staff and our volunteer core, but we had a lot of success stories mixed into the difficult days.

To contribute more as we move into the fall, you can always share your eBird checklists containing shorebirds, terns, and waders with us via the share function and ctwaterbirds@gmail.com. If you have young children in your family, perhaps you'd like to have them spend some time learning about our birds and drawing one of our focal species with a message about conservation. We use this art on string fenced areas, as you may have seen, beachgoers are much more receptive to this than traditional signage. Email us if you have a little artist who'd like to submit their work! Also keep up with our blog to see photos, videos, and more information and sightings of our birds all year long. Make sure you like our Audubon Alliance for Coastal Waterbirds Facebook page, too: https://www.facebook.com/AudubonAlliance

If you have yet to submit any of your data and information please do so as soon as possible. We thank you all once again for the tremendous and invaluable work you have done all spring and summer long. We will email numbers on focal species nesting totals for the season later in the autumn once they are finalized by CT DEEP.

Be well, stay safe, and we hope you will join us in 2021.

Scott Kruitbosch
AAfCW Volunteer Coordinator