The `Eel-Evator' -- Courant.com: "OLD SAYBROOK - There's the annual spring return of thousands of swallows to Capistrano, an old Spanish mission in California. And every fall, thousands of black and orange monarch butterflies fly west to their wintering grounds in California and Mexico, covering the trees with their shimmering wings.
Visit the link above to view a video of the project.
The American eel also has one of those great Mother Nature stories. Born in the Sargasso Sea, an expanse of 2 million square miles of warm water in the North Atlantic, these fish travel thousands of miles in search of fresh water. After spending up to 40 years in fresh water, the females return to the Sargasso Sea just to spawn and die.
Along that journey, the eels meet plenty of obstacles - dams, rapids, hydroelectric plants, predators and fishing nets.
But not along Fishing Brook.
As the eels travel through Long Island Sound and up the Oyster River, some take a left turn into Fishing Brook and get a ride on a contraption called an eel passage - affectionately known as an 'eel-evator.'"
