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=Greenwich Audubon Center= 613 Riversville Road Greenwich, Connecticut 06831 Greenwich Audubon Center web site Greenwich Audubon Center map

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Greenwich Audubon Center
Coordinates: 41.0970359, -73.68806 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Fairchild Garden Audubon Greenwich
Coordinates: 41.0907696, -73.6831355 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Quaker Ridge
Coordinates: 41.097111, -73.688667 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

About Greenwich Audubon Center
The National Audubon Society manages 686 acres on 7 sanctuaries in Greenwich. The main sanctuary at 613 Riversville Road opened in 1942 on land donated by Eleanor Clovis Reese and H. Hall Clovis and quickly established itself as the National Audubon Society's first environmental education center.

Members and the public are welcome to enjoy the seven miles of trails throughout the year from sunrise to sunset. The sanctuary's trails lead to hardwood forests, old fields, lake, streams and vernal pools. Reminders of the past are the stone walks, an old apple orchard and original New England homestead buildings.

Ecosystems at the sanctuary include large open fields, successional thickets, young and mature forests of mixed oak, beech, and maple, Mead Lake, shrub swamps, several vernal pools, Indian Spring Pond (human-made and present throughout the year), red maple swamps, and a small grove of hemlock trees. Also at the sanctuary are a beautiful old apple orchard, honeybee hives, wildflower meadows, a butterfly garden, and bird feeding station.

The east branch of the Byram River crosses the property and was dammed in the nineteenth century to create shallow Mead Lake, home to frogs, water snakes and turtles. You will find a boardwalk and two bird blinds on the Lake Loop Trail.

Noteworthy wildlife at the Center includes river otter, muskrats, wood ducks, white-tailed deer, coyotes, flying squirrels, nesting bluebirds, wild turkeys, bats, and a wide spectrum of reptiles, amphibians and birds. Seasonal highlights include the late winter movement of spotted salamanders to their breeding pond, spring warbler migration, late summer meadow insects and the nocturnal fall migration of the saw-whet owl. From Greenwich Audubon Center web site



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