What's Your Favorite Birding Site in Your State? (1 Viewer)

[GaryOwl]

Here's one for those living in the US.

If you've visited more than one birding site / patch in the state in which you now live, which one of those is your favorite?

Telling us why it's your favorite would be great and telling us how to get there from a nearby city (unless it's within the city limits already) would be awesome.

Can we get at least one response from every state? Let's see.

I'm in Wisconsin, but I must admit to only knowing my backyard patch, so I have to disqualify myself for now. That's partly why I'm asking this question: To find cool places to go birding.

 

[Bokmakierie99]

I'm a Vermonter, so I'll start out. I doubt there are too many of us on here.

Pretty much any time of year Dead Creek Wildlife Management Area is an amazing spot for birds. It's located in the town of Addison, a bit south of Burlington, VT. It runs through a nice mix of habitats, including fields, swamps, and forests, along the Dead Creek, which runs into Lake Champlain.

Come in November for thousands of Snow Geese, as well as a great diversity of other waterfall.
A little earlier in the fall can be great for shorebirds.
Wintertime is good for ducks, especially at the nearby Champlain Bridge over the lake.
Spring migration is fabulous for sparrows and warblers.

I hope this thread picks up... I'd love to hear about some more places in the USA.

 

[GaryOwl]

Good to hear from Vermont. Thanks!

 

[Jeff Hopkins]

Wow, hard to pick one.

Here in the Lehigh Valley of PA, I'd pick anywhere along the Kittatinny Ridge. There are at least two different hawk watches (Little Gap and Bake Oven Knob), a new nature preserve created out of a Superfund site (Lehigh Gap Nature Center), and plenty of state gamelands with lots of breeding warblers including hooded, worm-eating, Kentucky, and cerulean. Now that Leaser Lake in the NW corner of Lehigh County has been refilled, we have a good spot for migrant waterfowl at the base of the ridge, too.

Another goodie is the Penn Forest area of Carbon County. It's transitional between the normal eastern PA forest and the northern boreal forests. Even more species of warblers there including BT Blue, BT Green, Nashville, N. waterthrush, magnolia, Blackburnian, and Canada.

 

[GaryOwl]

Thanks, Pennsylvania. Hawks are good. (Not that the others are bad.)

 

[GaryOwl]

Well, shucks. I was hoping for more than 2 states. Maybe there are too many who had to disqualify themselves like I did.