It’s the Best Time of Year for Birds and Birders!
Audubon Offers FREE Guided Bird Walks in May
PRAIRIE WARBLER BY ED HUGHES
It’s the best birding of the year! Grab your binoculars, search for spring migrants, and take time to explore those special places in nature with Audubon!
Unless noted, registration is required for all programs. Register online and view a complete listing of programs through the events calendar at www.asri.org
FREE MAY BIRDING WALKS – 2020
Spring Migration is here! May is the peak month for the spring bird migration, with something different moving through each week. Get in on the best birding of the year with Audubon! Novice birders are welcome. Walks are geared for teen to adult.
Sundays
Caratunk Wildlife Refuge, 301 Brown Ave., Seekonk, MA
May 3, 10, 17, 31, 2020; 7:00 8 :30 am. NOT Memorial weekend.
Mondays
Fort Nature Refuge, (Rt. 5), 1443 Providence Pike, North Smithfield, RI
May 4, 11, 18, 2020; 8:00-10:00 am.
Note that no walk will be held on Memorial Day, May 27.
Tuesdays
Maxwell Mays Wildlife Refuge, 2820 Victory Highway, Coventry, RI
May 5, 12, 19, 26, 2020; 8:00 am-10:00 am.
Wednesdays*
Locations determined weekly, please visit the Audubon website or Facebook page for details, no registration necessary; May 13, 20, 27, 2020; 9:00-11:00 am. NOT May 6.
Thursdays
Marion Eppley Wildlife Refuge, Dugway Bridge Road, West Kingston, RI
May 7, 14, 21, 28, 2020; 8:00-10:00 am.
Touisset Marsh Wildlife Refuge, Touisset Road, Warren, RI
May 7, 21, 2020; 9:30 am-12:00 pm. Beginning Birding
Emilie Ruecker Wildlife Refuge, Seapowet Avenue, Tiverton, RI
May 14, 28, 2020; 9:30 am-12:00 pm. Beginning Birding
Fridays
Fisherville Brook Wildlife Refuge, 99 Pardon Joslin Road, Exeter, RI
May 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, 2020; 8:30-10:30 am.
Saturdays
Powder Mill Ledges Wildlife Refuge, 12 Sanderson Road, Smithfield, RI
May 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, 2020; 9:00 – 10:30 am.
May 9: Birding with Kids; 9:00 – 10:30 am
* Free Wednesday Morning Bird Walks will continue through June 2020.
Please note: In support of efforts to stem the outbreak of COVID-19, the Audubon Society of Rhode Island is temporarily closing all facilities to the public, including the Nature Center and Aquarium in Bristol. All programs, classes, and events are also cancelled. We are looking to reopen on May 1, 2020 but will be making decisions based on guidelines from the Rhode Island Department of Health. Please check our events calendar at www.asri.org or contact Hope Foley hfoley@asri.org, to insure the following May programs will be running.