MADISON, Conn. (WTNH) -- There's nothing like taking a field trip in school. We're meeting up with our friends in Old Saybrook, but taking this one on the road.

Bring your binoculars, put the books down, and look to the sky.

"Birds have always been interesting to me. There's so many cool ones and they all look different," Peter Vogt said.

Old Saybrook High School students are bird-watching at the beautiful Hammonasset State Park in Madison.

"A lot of kids have been to Hammonasset, but for the beach. So this is a different way to see this habitat and this area," Joe Attwater with the Connecticut Audubon Society said.

And there's a lot to see.

"There was a paradin falcon, we saw a bald eagle, some savannah sparrows, we saw some great egrets, heard a blue jay, heard a catbird," science

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