CANCELLED DUE TO WIND AND RAIN. NEW DATE TBD. There’s no better way to celebrate the arrival of spring than to visit a woodland pond alive with the sights…
Led by Avalonia naturalist Bruce Fellman, trek through the Benedict Benson Preserve to watch its uplands, centerpiece stream, and wetlands come to life with greening ferns, mosses, and wildflowers,…
CT TRAILS DAY EVENT: We’ll hike the Leo Antonino Preserve through forested areas, past active brooks, vernal pools, and up a bedrock ridge. There is a go-around for those who want to avoid the scramble up the ridge. We will pass next to erratics deposited by the glaciers and see how the Earth’s crust has…
The Benson Preserve, a typical Southern New England post-agricultural-abandonment upland forest dominated by oaks, beeches, birches, and hickories, features many mature trees, some of them home to Pileated Woodpeckers, as well as to a wide array of hardwood forest songbirds, the most intriguing of which is the Cerulean Warbler. This stunning bird, which is listed…