On Friday, March 13, Catherine Violet Hubbard (CVH) Animal Sanctuary sponsored “Woodcock Walk” on the grounds of the animal sanctuary, 8 Commerce Road. Laura King, program director of Catherine Violet Hubbard Animal Sanctuary, welcomed the group at the beginning of the session and then noted that the session was going to be led by Ken Elkins, the director of Education and Partnerships for the sanctuary. The session was billed as an opportunity for bird lovers to experience the magical world of woodcocks. Woodcocks are also known as timberdoodles, and they are “enigmatic and well-camouflaged shorebirds with a distinctive aerial courtship flight and nasal ‘peent’ call given in early evening." Guests were told that if they were lucky, they would get to witness the “amazing upward spiral mating dance.”

CVH Animal Sanctuary is also home to a relatively new geocache. The geocache was installed this past December and has seen a few guests visit. Geocaching is an outdoor recreational activity where participants hide tupperware containers or weather-proof lock boxes in popular hiking trails and register them online. Treasure hunters are invited to then go out and seek the geocache, open it up, and add their name and the date they found the geocache to the log book, and they can choose to leave something behind. After discovering the geocache, seekers are asked to replace the contents and close the receptacle properly. There are several other geocaches stored in and around Newtown. Interested parties can go to geocaching.com to discover what other geocaches are stored around town.