Educational programing!!
I am at it again . . . . the park is a little short handed with naturalist leading nature hikes this summer. I have been barrowed from my department to be helping do educational programs on Wednesdays. If you’re in the Allegany . . . look for me on Wednesdays!!
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Green Frog
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Babies are starting at SWAT
Had a great day at the SWAT –MAPS banding station this morning! We had a great assortment of birdies with woodpeckers, thrush, sparrows, finches, flycatchers and warblers!! Highlight was the Swainson’s Thrush which could be a first for this banding station but I knew that it would only be a matter of time till we got this species here.
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Roger Tory Peterson Birding Festival Part 1
Yellow-Billed Cuckoo
By: Pat Coate
On June 10-13 the Roger Tory Peterson Institute in Jamestown, NY held its second birding festival. The days were filled with wonderful field trips led by incredible guides, and workshops by some of the top men and women in the field. I feel very lucky to have this opportunity so close to home and I really, really enjoyed myself (I sense a certain son of mine will shake his head as he reads this – and speaking of shakes, we felt the tremors from the 5.5 earthquake centered near Ottawa, Canada on 6/23, a first for me).
The yellow-billed cuckoo shown above was one of the many (over 50?) species seen on the Woodchuck Hill field trip. It was a crowd pleaser, giving the whole group an unusually long look. It seemed to many attendees that there are more cuckoos around this year, likely because of the abundance of tent caterpillars.
Pfeiffer Nature Center Part 2
Eastern Kingbird
By: Pat Coate
Had a nice hike around the Eshelman Tract at Pfeiffer Nature Center. It offers several miles of well-marked trails through a variety of habitat. The Bullhead Pond Trail and creek area were full of activity including loud, croaking bullfrogs, great blue heron, chestnut-sided warblers, eastern phoebes, and the eastern kingbird shown above.
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Pfeiffer Nature Center Part 1
Hairy Woodpecker
By: Pat Coate
A couple weekends back I was dropping my daughter off in Cuba, NY and while on the way had the belated idea to head over to the Eshelman Tract of the Pfeiffer Nature Center for some birding. I had my camera with me, no binoculars and I wasn’t really dressed for hiking since we had pretty much left from church. But the draw was too strong…..
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Sunset
Out on Red House Lake with Nicole, Patty and I!!
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Birdie Blog
Me, Tina (birdie), Vicki
(front row) Trish, Brenda, Tammy (birdie)
By: Pat Coate
I had the good fortune to spend May13-16th in Pinehurst, NC with some very good friends on an awesome golf getaway weekend. I promised anyone scoring a birdie (one under par) a place on the ‘birdie’ blog. Well, between us we played 23 rounds of golf and managed two birdies – kudos to Tammy and Tina. The other type of birdies were in much more abundance…
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