12 Months of Birding – Summer Tanager
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As we move closer to the summer season, our May feature in our 12 Months of Birding series is one to listen and look for at the Inn on Mill Creek B&B, the aptly-named Summer Tanager.
Category Archives: Birding in the North Carolina Mountains
12 Months of Birding – Prairie Warbler
For this month’s bird in our 12 Months of Birding series, we celebrate spring bird migration in the North Carolina mountains with the Prairie Warbler.
12 Months of Birding – Red-Shouldered Hawk
Our 12 Months of Birding series continues with with our March pick, the Red-shouldered Hawk. This medium sized hawk is a forest raptor and so it’s not unusual to see them here inside Pisgah National Forest.
12 Months of Birding: Golden-Crowned Kinglet
Our 12 Months of Birding series continues with a bird we often see in February, the Golden-crowned Kinglet. This royally named tiny bird spends winters in our Pisgah National Forest neighborhood and the rest of the year in the northern U.S. and Canada. More often heard than seen, the Golden-crowned Kinglet can be challenging to find; generally we see and hear them in the evergreens and shrubby areas on the edges of the wetlands, which is at the southern end of the property where the boardwalk is located.
12 Months of Birding: Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker
Winter Birding and the Great Backyard Bird Count
Wintertime is a great time to do birdwatching – it’s one of the activities you can do year-round here in Pisgah National Forest east of Asheville, North Carolina.
Join us for the 2019 Great Backyard Bird Count, Feb. 15-18
Every year, we invite bird lovers to our backyard inside Pisgah National Forest during the annual Great Backyard Bird Count. This year, the dates for the GBBC are February 15-18, 2019.
North Carolina Mountain Birds: Chipping Sparrow
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Look high up in the trees or on top of the high evergreen shrubs (and sometimes on the ground) near the birdfeeders at the Inn on Mill Creek and you may spot the Chipping Sparrow, our January 2017 pick in our 12 Months of Birding at the Inn series on the blog.
North Carolina Mountain Birds: Gray Catbird
Hear a noise that sounds like a cat who’s gotten itself stuck in the branches of a tree? Well, if you hear that “Mew Mew” at the Inn on Mill Creek, it’s likely you’re listening to the Gray Catbird, our final pick of the year in our monthly Birding at the Inn series on the blog.
North Carolina Mountain Birds: Eastern Screech Owl
We’re big fans of the Eastern Screech Owl, a small raptor with a distinctive set of songs, none of which sounds like a screeching owl to us, but more like a bubbly, warbly, trilly, whinnying owl. So let’s meet our November 2016 selection in our 12 Months of Birding at the Inn blog series.