Category: Wildlife Series and Events

Birdsong Talk and Concert 6:45pm April 21, 2024

Hi Everyone – Just a quick reminder about the free Birdsong concert and talk beginning at 6:45pm today, Sunday, April 21.  This is a casual, fun and family friendly concert exploring how composers and poets from the 13th century, through Handel, through our own time have been influenced by listening to the sound of birds. I will talk briefly about several interesting aspects of bird song starting at 6:45pm and Michelle will then talk briefly about how composers have adapted their musical ideas relating to birds.  Michelle will do a little of her own improvisation on bird songs while folks wander around looking at pictures of birds and then the concert, featuring the Choir School of Hartford and the Trinity Church choir and Michelle doing instrumental pieces on the organ and piano.  It should be quite a “Bird Happening” and I hope you’ll consider attending.
There’s plenty of free parking around the church as shown on the map below.   Come join in the fun.
Chris Fisher (HAS Member)
Michelle Horsley (HAS Member)

Winners of 2023 Hartford Audubon Photo Contest

Winners in the six categories.

Best overall: Glenn Berger/ Black Vultures

Black Vultures: Birdwatching Goes Both Ways

Bird Behavior: Barbara Scavotto/ Hairy Woodpecker

Female Hairy Woodpecker: Searching for lunch

Rare Bird: Maggie Peretto/ Oregon Junco

Oregon Junco: Surprised to see this bird along with 60 other juncos!

Birder: Joann Heffernan/ Birder cleaning up

Oops: Joann Heffernan/ partial black bird

Raven, Crow, Fish Crow? We’ll never know!

Funniest: Joann Heffernan/ Swans

Swans: Auditions for Swan Lake/Bottoms Up

January 2023 Photo Contest!

Second Annual (2023) Hartford Audubon “Big January” Photo contest

Hello Hartford Audubon members,

Happy New Year!

January 2023 is here and we are birding and taking photos while doing so!

We are inviting you to submit 1 to 6 of your current Big January pictures, one per category.  You do NOT have to have competed in Big January to enter – any January, 2023 photos taken in the Hartford County are eligible!

There are six categories:

  1. Best overall of bird(s)
  2. Bird behavior
  3. Rarest bird
  4. Birders (people!)
  5. Oops/ the one that got away…
  6. Funniest

Deadlines:

By February 20th submit one picture per category to Mona Cavallero at mcavallero1@comcast.net.  Please use the form below for submissions.

Big January 2023 Photo Submission Form

By February 28th Mona will number and upload all photos to the HAS website.

By March 31st the three judges who are professional bird photographers will select the winners. They will review the photos on the website and agree on the winning selections.  We will again invite Julian Hough, Chris Fisher and Sam Fried to be our judges!

Winners will be announced and ribbons presented at the HAS Spring banquet.

The six selected photos will be printed, framed and displayed at the banquet and given as awards to the winners.

All photos will be part of the large screen display at the banquet.

Please enter the contest – we can’t wait to see the images you’ve gathered in this cold, snowy month!

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