Tag: Travel
Five Reasons to Climb a Mountain This Summer
Another installment in my Adirondacks series: I want to show you five reasons you should climb a mountain in the Adirondacks this summer: And now I want to give you five easy Adirondack mountains to climb. So head on over to Rochester’s City Newspaper Summer Guide ’09, which just published my list of Five Easy Hikes [...]
Adirondack Bug Bonnet Helped Keep Black Flies at Bay
This is a Bug Bonnet, a handmade work of wonder by Adirondacker Marjorie Swift, a woman who lives with her family off the grid at the base of Whiteface Mountain. The hat is handmade from sturdy cotton has a band of tulle netting that can be lowered down over your face and neck and tucked into [...]
Another Adirondack Birding Festival, June 19-21
Hey there! Yet another Adirondack birding festival to report. Coming THIS WEEKEND, June 19 – 21, the 5th Annual Hamilton County Birding Festival will take place. Click here for a list of birds you might get to see during this festival. You won’t find a single traffic light in Hamilton County, which is the third largest [...]
Birding the Adirondacks: Overview
Rarely have I been so lucky as to immerse myself in four full days of birding in an entirely new habitat, so close to home. I have been on extended birding tours in Honduras, Belize and other places, but what’s exceptional about the Adirondack Park is that it is a largely unspoiled 6-million acre wildlife [...]
Great Adirondack Birding Celebration – THIS weekend!
REMINDER: The Seventh Annual Great Adirondack Birding Celebration will be held June 5-7 at the Adirondack Park Agency Visitor Interpretive Center in Paul Smiths. The weekend features birding trips, lectures, workshop and the popular Teddy Roosevelt Birding Challenge. The keynote address will be given by Bridget Stutchbury, York University professor of biology. For more information, [...]
June is Birding Month in The Adirondacks
The Adirondack Park is a haven for boreal birds that migrate to the region every spring. Migrants arrive in full force by late May, and by June, roughly 176 different bird species will be on breeding territory, including 76 neotropical migrants (such as Cape May and Bay-breasted warblers). In a mere two weeks, I will be making a solo [...]
Festival of the Birds at Presque Isle, Pennsylvania
Now here’s a festival I wish I could attend. On three days surrounding International Migratory Bird Day (May 9), the Festival of the Birds will take place on a small peninsula in eastern Lake Erie called Presque Isle. “Presque” is a French term meaning “almost an island.” The Isle, known as a recurving sand spit [...]
First Inaugural Birding Festival at Roger Tory Peterson Institute
To celebrate the life and legacy of Roger Tory Peterson, the Roger Tory Peterson Institute will launch its inaugural annual birding festival June 4-7, 2009. The focus of the festival will be eastern North American warblers on the Allegheny Plateau. Twenty-five warblers are known to breed in the area and the festival will offer several [...]
