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Who we are - Mount Vernon Songbird Sanctuary is a non - profit charitable organization, founded and run by Jayne Neville with the help of of volunteers. We are based in Central Connecticut on 4 1/2 acres of beautiful songbird habitat. The Sanctuary has a rehabilitation area with a small building and three flight cages, a pavilion with attached chimney that provide a nesting site for the declining chimney swifts and barn swallows, along with extensive gardens, natural areas with native plants,a pond, feeding station with waterfall, and wooded, open and early successional habitat.
What we do - Our expertise is primarily on insectivores with greatest conservation needs, including warblers, flycatchers, chimney swifts and swallow species. Jayne also has extensive knowledge and experience with woodpeckers, hummingbirds, waxwings, grosbeaks, orioles, tanagers, kingfishers, woodcock, snipe and killdeer.. At this time our focus is with educational programs on rehabilitation and conservation.
If you have found a small migratory songbird or any of the birds mentioned above that need immediate assistance, please call at (860)-681-1190, email cannot always be checked. At this time we are unable to handle most orphaned young dealing only with adult birds. For more information on whether a bird needs assistance, please see our page I found a songbird
We do not handle any mammals or larger birds such as doves, blue jays, grackles, crows, hawks, owls and waterfowl, or non - migratory birds such as house sparrows, starlings and pigeons.
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