The Au Train Songbird Trail offers a new way to identify birds. There are all sorts of guides out there for telling one bird from another, but now you can learn them by their songs. It seems like the birds are talking to you when you walk the trail.

The best time to hear the woodland concert is in the morning when the birds are most active, but you can walk the trail any time of the day. You can rent a kit which contains a guide book, a tape and tape player, and binoculars. Play the tape and you will be guided through the trail while listening to the twenty birds it features. Many of the birds will even sing along. The kits can be picked up at the A & L Grocery, the Au Train Grocery, or the Friends & Food Restaurant right in Au Train. There is a $10 deposit; S8 will be refunded when you bring the kit back. The remaining $2 are used to maintain the equipment.

From atop the new observation platform (located near the trailhead) overlooking Buck Bay, you can see ducks, shorebirds, and perhaps even an eagle or osprey.

Identify birds along this trail not by their features but by their songs.