With birding becoming an activity with growing interst and support, many regional birding trails are popping up across the country. For anyone interested, North Alabama has a great birding trail and website, www.northalabamabirdingtrail.com It features 50 sites across North Alabama, with many of the sites located around the Tennessee River Basin.

As far as Connecticut goes, this blog is the best resource: http://brownstonebirder.blogspot.com/ .