Birding Festivals in the Adirondacks:
2016 Great Adirondack Birding Celebration
Birding Across the Adirondacks Field Trip
Boreal Birds of the Adirondacks: Blackburnian Warbler. Photo by Larry Master. www.masterimages.org
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- Time: Friday, 5 June, 8:00 AM.
- Price: $75 per person. $68 for Friends of the VIC or Northern New York Audubon members. $38 for Friends of the VIC Warblers. Each field trip is limited to 16 participants. This trip fills up very quickly. Please register early. The trip fee includes transportation and lunch.
- 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 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 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.
Bird species seen during the 2015 Birding Across the Adirondacks field trip include:
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: