Birding Festivals in the Adirondacks:
2016 Great Adirondack Birding Celebration
Birding the St. Lawrence Valley Field Trip
Birds of the Adirondacks: Double-crested Cormorant. Photo by Larry Master. www.masterimages.org
| This site is no longer being updated with current information on birding activities at the VIC. For current information on the events planned for the 2017 Great Adirondack Birding Celebration, visit: http://www.paulsmiths.edu/vic/gabc/schedule/. For information on birding in the Adirondacks, visit: Adirondack Wildlife: Birds of the Adirondacks. |
- 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: Alder Flycatcher. Photo by Larry Master. www.masterimages.org. Used by permission.
The all-day Birding the St. Lawrence Valley field trip will explore a wide variety of habitats, including fields, edge forest, deciduous forest, and lowland conifer wetlands. The trip will take us to active waterfowl gathering places near the shoreline of the St. Lawrence River, stopping along the way to sample the bird life in the raptor-rich agricultural fields near Massena. We'll search for buntings, sparrows, hawks, ducks and much more during this all-day outing.
We will depart from the Paul Smith’s College VIC in vans at 8:00 AM with lunch and beverages on board. We will return to the VIC at about 3:00 or 4:00 PM. Our exact itinerary is subject to change. Preregistration required. The bag lunch, which is part of the trip fee, includes a sandwich, fresh fruit, chips, dessert and bottled water. Vegetarian and vegan sandwiches will be available.
During the 2015 Great Adirondack Birding Celebration, birders who participated on this field trip saw 66 species:
| Canada Goose | Veery |
| Mallard | Swainson's Thrush |
| Ring-necked Duck | Wood Thrush |
| Common Loon | American Robin |
| Double-crested Cormorant | Gray Catbird |
| American Bittern | Brown Thrasher |
| Great Blue Heron | European Starling |
| Green Heron | Cedar Waxwing |
| Turkey Vulture | Blue-winged Warbler |
| Osprey | Yellow Warbler |
| Northern Harrier | Chestnut-sided Warbler |
| Sharp-shinned Hawk | Black-throated Blue Warbler |
| American Kestrel | Yellow-rumped Warbler |
| Killdeer | Black-and-white Warbler |
| Ring-billed Gull | American Redstart |
| Caspian Tern | Ovenbird |
| Rock Pigeon | Common Yellowthroat |
| Mourning Dove | Eastern Towhee |
| Chimney Swift | Chipping Sparrow |
| Ruby-throated Hummingbird | Savannah Sparrow |
| Yellow-bellied Sapsucker | Song Sparrow |
| Northern Flicker | Swamp Sparrow |
| Pileated Woodpecker | White-throated Sparrow |
| Eastern Phoebe | Northern Cardinal |
| Great Crested Flycatcher | Rose-breasted Grosbeak |
| Eastern Kingbird | Indigo Bunting |
| Willow Flycatcher | Red-winged Blackbird |
| Warbling Vireo | Common Grackle |
| American Crow | Brown-headed Cowbird |
| Common Raven | Baltimore Oriole |
| Tree Swallow | Bobolink |
| Barn Swallow | American Goldfinch |
| Black-capped Chickadee | Trumpeter Swan |