Tomorrow's high winds will postpone Long Beach's scheduled fencing for sections #4-5 and Pleasure Beach until Wednesday, April 20, at 10:00am. Please email us if you intend to join these fencing parties - and we thank you!
- Long Beach, Stratford, beaches #4-5 and Pleasure Beach, Bridgeport - Wednesday, April 20, 10:00am (be mindful of long walk)
- Bluff Point State Park, Groton - Thursday, April 21st, 10:00am (rain date April 22nd, 10:00am)
Fencing will be placed at other locations by staff only. Remember that any and all volunteers are welcome including those who are not monitors. Volunteers should bring: work gloves, water, a snack, appropriate footwear, sunscreen, sunglasses, hats and whatever else you may need avoid too much sun. These locations can either be quite cool or very warm depending on the day so dress for any weather. A pocket knife or multi-tool can be handy and a sledge hammer or mallet can be helpful to bring. Plan for heavy lifting and toting, but be mindful of your safety. Less intensive work needed includes stringing posts and putting up signs. Please email us at ctwaterbirds@gmail.com if you can make it to for these dates, and thank you!
Additionally...
- Please continue to let CT DEEP and AAfCW know about any downed fencing and signage, or potential new nests, as soon as you can. Piping Plovers and American Oystercatchers have started nesting in select places, and we can expect more soon. However, we can also expect storm tides and high winds to wash some out, and damage more fencing - as has occurred in West Haven already. Stay home from monitoring in rain, high winds, temperatures below 50, or above 90.
- As discussed in training, we want to walk in the wet sand area when monitoring. This is between the water and the high dune where the birds nest/where fencing is placed. If fencing is hit by the tide, it will be downed. This is why we do not place fencing in water or near the usual high tide line. We also want to allow a path for people to walk below the nesting area and near the water. Don't forget the 2022 AAfCW new volunteer monitor online training session is here on YouTube as a refresher at any time: https://youtu.be/E0putp6rFn4 - please review this multiple times if you are confused about any aspect of monitoring.
- Please also keep tides in mind when deciding what time you will be monitoring. We schedule everyone in advance because we need to know who will be where and when. We need to schedule your season before you begin monitoring. We provide AM/PM slots so you can best choose what works for you, work around a high tide if needed, or potentially bad weather (e.g. going out near dawn instead of midday on a hot day).
- If you have started your monitoring or will soon, please remember to submit your data and information as soon as you can after your trip to the beach via the electronic submission form in the upper-right hand column of our blog titled, “Online Data Submission Form”. The simple Google form can also be found directly at this address: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/13i9JBfV0MYQdHhGq3n3C348S78M—5c3JpWKUIbbYlI/. This is our only data submission method. Please use that form to submit all data. This includes negative data - if you did not see any birds, please select any species from the dropdown menu, report zero, and enter all your other information (date, time, location, etc.).
Thank you!
Scott Kruitbosch
AAfCW Volunteer Coordinator
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