Paul Smith's College Visitor Interpretive Center --  Jenkins Mountain Trail - 6 July 2011

Birding the Adirondacks:
Teddy Roosevelt Bird Walk
6 July 2011

Paul Smiths Visitor Center:  Jenkins Mountain Trail (6 July 2011)Paul Smiths Visitor Center: Jenkins Mountain Trail (6 July 2011)

Adirondack Birding Center Director Brian McAllister led a bird walk on the Jenkins Mountain Trail on 6 July 2011. The walk was part of the "TR" Birding Series. The walk began at 8:00 AM, when we met at the parking lot at the Paul Smith's College VIC. A light rain inhibited our ability to hear the birds for the first twenty minutes or so of the walk, but the weather cleared up a bit later on.

The highlight of the walk was a close-up sighting of two beautiful warblers: the Chestnut-sided Warbler and the Mourning Warbler. We saw both birds in an area near Plot 7, which had been cleared about a decade ago and is now growing in, producing the kind of thick underbrush both these birds favor.

We heard the following birds near the parking area:

Red-eyed Vireo American Robin
Magnolia Warbler Northern Parula

 

Paul Smiths VIC: Barnum Brook from the Jenkins Mountain Trail (6 July 2011)Paul Smiths VIC: Barnum Brook from the Jenkins Mountain Trail (6 July 2011)

In the woods on the Jenkins Mountain Trail, we saw or heard the following birds:

Red-eyed Vireo Nashville Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Ovenbird Black-capped Chickadee
Golden-crowned Kinglet Blue Jay
Northern Parula Black-throated Blue Warbler
Brown Creeper Chestnut-sided Warbler
Winter Wren Cedar Waxwing
Mourning Warbler

 

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