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Audubon Owl Garden Party fund-raiser. Don Taylor photo.
Owl party
a real 'hoot' of
a fund-raiser
POMFRET --- The Connecticut Audubon Society’s 11th Annual Owl Garden Party was held at the Rectory School’s dining hall recently and raised just over $30,000.
The event featured house specialties from local restaurants and wine sampling from regional vineyards. It was supported by over 50 sponsors, attended by more than 300 guests and raised just over $30,000.
Quiet Corner restaurants donated crowd-pleasing favorites. In addition to fantastic food and fine company, the evening’s program included an exhibition of live birds of prey from Horizon Wings of Ashford.
Guests were spellbound by the American kestrel, red-tailed hawk and saw-whet owl while Horizon Wings staff and volunteers answered questions about their habitat, the environmental challenges many species now face as well as the rehabilitation work they do to for these magnificent birds in our area.
Ben Williams of Pomfret, a founding member of the Regional Board of Advisors for the Connecticut Audubon Society’s Center at Pomfret, spoke briefly to the guests about the new proposed regional facility. He announced that due to burgeoning programs and lack of space, after years of planning the Connecticut Audubon Society is committed to building a top notch nature facility on Day Road in Pomfret.
It will be called the Grassland Bird Conservation Center and the ground-breaking is anticipated this month.
Proceeds from the Owl Garden Party support the over 350 environmental programs offered to area school children and the general public year round.
For information on next year’s party, our programming and/or the new nature facility, please call 860-928-4948 or email the Director, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..