Birding Festivals in the Adirondacks:
2015 Great Adirondack Birding Celebration
Birding Across the Adirondacks Field Trip
Boreal Birds of the Adirondacks: Blackburnian Warbler. Photo by Larry Master. www.masterimages.org
- Time: Friday, 5 June, 7:30 AM.
- A la carte price: $70 per person for those registered for the three-day Great Adirondack Birding Celebration. If you are not registered for the Great Adirondack Birding Celebration, but wish to join this trip, the price is $80. Please pre-register and pay no later than 30 May. Pre-register early. The trip capacity is 16
- Where to Meet: Participants will meet in the Paul Smith's College VIC building at 7:30 AM. The vans will depart at 8:00 AM. We ask you to come early because you will assemble your own lunch from lunch ingredients provided. (There are vegetarian options.) Participants and leaders will then depart by chartered vans for locations throughout the Adirondacks. Lunch, beverages, and van transportation are included in the fee.
- What to Bring: Gear for an all-day trip: hat, binoculars, sunscreen, snack, water, rain gear, insect repellent
Boreal Birds of the Adirondacks: Yellow-bellied Flycatcher. Photo by Larry Master. www.masterimages.org. Used by permission.
The focus of the all-day Birding Across the Adirondacks field trip will be the different habitats that make up the six-million acre Adirondack Park. We will depart from the Paul Smith’s College VIC in vans at 8:00 AM with lunch and beverages on board.
- Our first stop will be the boreal habitat of Bloomingdale Bog to search for birds typical of a boreal wetland, including the Gray Jay, Black-backed Woodpecker, and Olive-sided Flycatcher.
- We will then stop to check for grassland species in the Lake Placid area, such as Bobolink, Northern Harrier, Savannah Sparrow, and swallow species.
- We will drop in elevation to the Lake Champlain valley to explore shoreline, open and scrub fields, wetlands, mixed woods and second growth forests. Here we expect to see Blue-winged Warbler, Golden-winged Warbler, Marsh Wren, Baltimore Oriole, Scarlet Tanager, and Yellow-bellied Flycatcher.
- We expect to tally some 60 species in these eight different habitat types. We will return to the VIC at about 3:00 PM. Our exact itinerary is subject to change. Preregistration required. Bag lunch included.
During the 2014 Birding Across the Adirondacks field trip, participants saw or heard a total of 58 species:
Bird species seen during the 2013 Birding Across the Adirondacks field trip include: