Culture Connect Featured Event

Lighthouse Point Park Migration Festival   September 23, 2012

Celebrating Birds, Butterflies & Dragonflies

Sunday, September 23, 2012,  8 a.m. to 3 p.m. (No Rain Date) A suggested donation of $5 per car is requested to help fund next year's event

Each autumn, tens of thousands of hawks, songbirds, butterflies, and dragonflies pass through Lighthouse Point Park, a recognized Important Bird Area, on their migrations southward.  Come celebrate this awesome spectacle Sunday September 23, 2012, 8 a.m. - 3 p.m. There will be bird walks for all ages, a bird banding demonstration, a hawks-in-flight ID workshop, live raptor shows, lighthouse tours, butterfly tagging and more!!!  For additional information contact the East Rock/Trowbridge Environmental Center at (203) 946-6086 or the Lighthouse Point Park Ranger at (203) 946-8790. Dan Barvir (dbarvir@newhavenct.net)

This festival is made possible in part by an Important Bird Area Small Matching Grant from Audubon Connecticut.

Complete schedule of events can be found here: http://www.ctbirding.org/2012docs/2012LHPPFestival.pdf