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FOC Received Two Grants!
The Friends are proud to announce that we have secured the following capacity building grants that will greatly help us in strengthening our organization for the benefit of Connetquot River State Park Preserve:
• NYSCA/UHA Get Ready Grant
• Parks & Trails New York Grant
Click here to read the details of these grants




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September 26, 2009 - Birding and Breakfast
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Through a collaboration of Friends of Connetquot, Connetquot River State Park Preserve and Great South Bay Audubon a Bird & Breakfast program was held, as an Important Bird Area (“IBA”) activity. A group of 20 people led by John Gluth and Edith Wilson walked the trails of the park from 9:30 to 12:00p.m. and observed the following birds:
  1. Am Robin
  2. Am. Black Duck
  3. Am. Goldfinch
  4. Am. Kestrel
  5. Belted Kingfisher
  6. Black-and-White Warbler
  7. Black-capped Chickadee
  8. Black-throated Blue Warbler
  9. Blue Jay
  10. Canada Goose
  11. Carolina Wren
  12. Cedar Waxwing
  13. Chipping Sparrow
  14. Cooper’s Hawk
  15. Double-crested Cormorant
  1. Downy Woodpecker
  2. Eastern Phoebe
  3. Eastern Towhee
  4. Gadwall
  5. Gray Catbird
  6. Great Black-backed Gull
  7. Great Blue Heron
  8. Hairy Woodpecker
  9. Herring Gull
  10. House Sparrow
  11. Mallard
  12. Mute Swan
  13. No. Pintail
  14. Northern Flicker
  15. Osprey
  1. Pine Warbler
  2. Red-bellied Woodpecker
  3. Red-breasted Nuthatch
  4. Red-eyed Vireo
  5. Red-tailed Hawk
  6. Ring-billed Gull
  7. Scarlet Tanager
  8. Song Sparrow
  9. Swamp Sparrow
  10. Tufted Titmouse
  11. White-throated Sparrow
  12. Wood Duck
  13. Yellow-rumped Warbler
All attendees got to see a beautiful rainbow as we wound up our morning Connetquot Birding Field Trip and a small painted turtle.

— Co-Field Trip Leader, Edith Wilson

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