II. Animals (Aquaria, Farms, Wildlife and Zoos)


cfaCool wildlife, unique bird and fish sites, interesting domestic animals and really, just about anything having to do with animals including Connecticut’s one zoo, two aquariums as well as a few fish ladders and hatcheries. This is your portal to all things Kingdom Animalia on CTMQ.

Poke around; there is a lot more to this page than you may think. Like the various bald eagle tours and the eel fishway in Baltic. Neon turkeys in Guilford and albino squirrels in Meriden. If you’re not at least a little curious now, I don’t know who you are anymore.

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Aquaria, Hatcheries & Ladders, Zoo/Zoolike places
Farms Worth Visiting
Curious Non-Wild Animals
Wildlife in the Wild

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Aquaria, Hatcheries, Ladders, Zoo & Zoo-like Places

Don’t tell anyone, but we liked Norwalk’s aquarium better than Mystic’s. And Action Wildlife (Goshen) better than Beardsley Zoo (Bridgeport). Shhhhh… Anyway, these are all classified as museums on this here blog, but .

Aquaria
Mystic Aquarium, Mystic
Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk

Fish Hatcheries, Ladders & Lifts
Quinebaug and Burlington Trout Hatcheries, Plainfield and Burlington
Rainbow Dam Fishway, Granby
West River Fishway, New Haven

Occum Dam eel way, Baltic (Info)
Greeneville Dam Fish lift, Norwich (Info)
Kinneytown Fishway, Naugatuck
Mianus River fishway, Greenwich (Info)
2 Eightmile River fishways, Lyme (Info)
Bunnell Pond Fishway (Info)
Supply pond fishway, Branford (Info)

Zoo & Zoo-Farm Places
Beardsley Zoo, Bridgeport
Flamig Farm, Simsbury
Action Wildlife, Goshen
Silverman’s Animal Farm, Easton
Westmoor Park, West Hartford
Riverview Farms, Glastonbury
Summer Brook Valley Farm Alpacas, Middletown

Ray of Light Farm, East Haddam (Info)

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Damian feeding rocks to sheep at Silverman’s.

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Farms Worth Visiting

This section on the farms and farm-like things around the state has been moved around to different areas of the blog 3 or 4 times now. But I think this is it. I like its new home here.

These joints offer tours or other such ways to spend a fun farm day. I do have a separate page on what I call the Connecticut Cheese Trail which are mostly at farms.

Fish Family Farm, Bolton
UConn Animal Barns, Storrs
Auer 4-H Farm, Bloomfield
Bush Meadow Farm, Brooklyn
Rustling Wind Creamery, Falls Village
Beltane Farm, Lebanon
Cushman Farms, Franklin (Farmer’s Cow Farm)
Hilltop Farm, Suffield
Graywall Farms, Lebanon (Farmer’s Cow Farm)
Mapleleaf Farm, Hebron (Farmer’s Cow Farm)
Hytone Farm, Coventry (Farmer’s Cow Farm)
Fort Hill Farms, Thompson (Farmer’s Cow Farm)
Arethusa Farm, Litchfield

High Wire Deer and Animal Farm, Woodbury
Bakerwoods Farm, Ashford
Five Orange Farms (Info)
Fairvue Farms, Woodstock (Farmer’s Cow Farm)
Hurricane Farm, Scotland

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Damian pointing the way at UConn’s dairy barns

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Curious Non-Wild Animals

I’ve sort of separated “artificial” wildlife stuff from the more natural in the “Wildlife” section below. Of course, you’ll find plenty of stuff about animals at various museums and along various trails. This is the stuff that falls outside of that.

Bears!
Two-headed Goat, Glastonbury, 10/18/2008
Neon turkeys, Guilford, 11/21/2009
Last Post Cat Retirement Home, Falls Village, 4/3/2010
Fidelco Guide Dogs, Bloomfield
Diving Horses (historic), Niantic

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Wildlife in the Wild

I saw a bald eagle in the wild!, Barkhamsted
Monk Parakeet Invasion, Long Island Sound towns, 6/14/2008
I saw bears in the wild!, Granby, 10/12/2008
I saw a beautiful ring-neck pheasant in the wild!, Windsor
Wild Guinea Fowl!, Colebrook
Ominous Turkey Vultures!, West Hartford
Shepaug Dam Eagle Observation Area, Southbury
Bobcat family at work, Windsor

Bald Eagle Cruise, Essex
Albino squirrel colony, Middlesex County
See fisher in the woods
See Moose in the woods
See River otters in the woods
See various owls in the woods
See rattlesnake in the woods
See sugar glider in the woods

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Neon turkeys at Gozzi’s in Guilford

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