Audubon Center Has Summer Day Camp

For Nature-Loving Kids

SOUTHBURY — The Audubon Center at Bent of the River is offering children entering grades 4 or 5 a special opportunity to become Audubon Naturalists at its day camp this summer. The week-long sessions, which run from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. each weekday, are filled with fun, adventure, exploration, and discovery.

A few spaces are still available for the weeks of July 10, 17 and 24. Qualifying students may also receive scholarships.

Audubon’s day camp programs offer a unique outdoor experience in the midst of a beautiful, richly diverse and fascinating 700-acre natural setting.  The Pomperaug River meanders through the Bent, where otters and ducks and frogs and little critters living under the rocks swim and play and eat and breed. There are meadows exploding with wildflowers and forests full of all kinds of trees, rare orchids, insects and animal hideouts.

Audubon Naturalists get to unravel the mysteries of nature through hands-on activities in this alive, rich and fun environmental laboratory.

Working in the field like true scientists, using scientific tools and techniques, campers will explore, discover, learn and reflect on the habits and habitats of the many plants and animals that reside at Audubon. Through games, stories, art and journaling, they will have an exciting and fun-filled week-long adventure.

Each camp session is limited to eight campers – with at least two instructors – to ensure a quality learning experience.

The Audubon Naturalists program is one of three day camp programs available at the Bent this summer. The EcoDiscoverer program , which runs from 8:30 am until 2 pm each weekday during each week in July, is for children entering grades 6-8 . The Watershed Wizard program, held during the week of July 31, is for children entering grades 5 and 6.

Camp registration forms and scholarship information are available by calling the Audubon Center at 264-0598. Registrations are taken on a first-come, first-served basis. Scholarship applications should be submitted along with registration forms.

The Audubon Center at Bent of the River is one of many National Audubon Society centers throughout the country that are encouraging children to become stewards of the environment.

The Audubon Center at Bent of the River is located at 185 East Flat Hill Road in South Britain, about a half mile from Connecticut Route 172.