AAfCW Reminders

 AAfCW New Volunteer Field Training by CT DEEP is tomorrow:

• Saturday, May 1st from 10am-12pm at Sandy/Morse Points in West Haven

This session for new volunteers will be focused on how to look for the birds and how to collect data. If you have not received a monitoring ID badge and/or lanyard, this doubles as a great time to pick one up in person. CT DEEP will let West Haven know about the session and take care of parking. We will meet in the parking lot, and you can park there even without a pass. Please know this is supplemental in-person training for our existing volunteers to add to the previous training sessions on Zoom in March.

Monitoring IDs are still being created and sent out by CT DEEP. If you have not received yours yet, you can pick one up tomorrow, and the remainder will be sent ASAP. CT DEEP Wildlife is extraordinarily busy with an extremely limited staff and still working around COVID-19 protocols. Everything is in slow motion, but we are getting there! There are still a few parking passes that need to be completed by West Haven, too.

If we have inclement weather - cold days under 50, hot days over 90, very windy days like today, or rain, please skip your monitoring session. Fencing is still being completed and Piping Plover nests exclosed across CT daily. If you discover a new nest while monitoring or see something we should know about, please directly email: Laura.Saucier@ct.gov, rsuzf@hotmail.com, and ctwaterbirds@gmail.com. We need those direct contacts in addition to data entry for significant sightings and events like new nests. Thank you!