New signs on Long Beach in Stratford

Below you can see signs on Long Beach for the protection of the Piping Plovers and (hopefully!) Least Terns. They were erected yesterday by ...

Piping Plover tracks

Look at these Piping Plover tracks all over the beach at Harkness Memorial State Park this week, courtesy of Timothy L. Thompson. Below we s...

Surfrides

A stylish and functional quiver of rides to the beach. The last one would be expensive to run given gas prices, but you could get to some re...

Warning on beach scheme

Warning on beach scheme Home  »  News  »  Dunedin By  Chris Morris  on Thu, 29 Mar 2012 News: Dunedin   68     0   ShareThis Mike Hilton The...

Can you spot the Piping Plover?

See if you can spot the Piping Plover in the picture below, one of a few photos taken by Audubon Alliance for Coastal Waterbirds staff membe...

Audubon Alliance for Coastal Waterbirds update #2

Here are the survey and monitoring updates for March 19 through 25. Piping Plover Volunteer and staff surveys: 1 pair, 1 adult at Sandy/Mors...

Confusing shorebirds - a pair of Sanderling

We recently spotted two white shorebirds running in and out of the dunes of Sandy Point in West Haven in the fog. They were acting like a pa...

American Oystercatchers return as well

Single and paired American Oystercatchers are now being seen even more frequently than Piping Plovers in Connecticut, from one end to the ot...

Hynd

Nice little aquatic frolic from Dezza and a few mates. The man is as smooth as it gets. I will say I'm a little worried by the history o...

Widowmaker

This is a 6' 8" Parmenter widowmaker of the old school- paving stone thick, rails as hard as diamonds and just beautifully sleek. I...

Piping Plovers return!

Piping Plovers have been spotted across the Connecticut coast already, including Long Beach in Stratford, Milford Point in Milford, Griswold...

Rosario Beach

Rosario Beach lies just north of Bowman Bay.  It's a smaller pocket beach, the southern portion of which lies in the State Park.  I'...

Bowman Bay

The landslide at Cama Beach, combined with the realities of work and home, meant that that this post and the next have been stuck in my draf...

Audubon Alliance for Coastal Waterbirds update #1

This is the first update by the Audubon Alliance for Coastal Waterbirds for the 2012 season. We will include weekly updates with data from o...

Cama Beach

I went back to Cama Beach Saturday morning to see how the landslide was evolving.  It's hard to tell how much new material is being adde...

USFWS, CT DEEP, & Audubon Alliance training videos

The following videos are only small portions of the three-hour plus Piping Plover monitor training and orientation session conducted by the ...

Quad

I'm a convert. Top to bottom: Hanalei fin set, Mackie, Mackie, heel side for Paul's asym. Robin Mair builds those amazing looking Ha...

Survey Datasheets

Here are your survey datasheets for the 2012 coastal waterbird season! If you scan to the bottom of this post you can find them in .PDF form...

Flex

Young Mackie puts the cruiser flexboard through it's paces in the homeland, and shares a quick look at what is going to turn into a uniq...