Summer Birding in the Blue Ridge

• May 04th, 2010

• Author:

  leahgrove

With its temperate valleys, chilly mountain peaks, thick woodlands, open meadows, and grassy balds, the High Country is a birder’s paradise.

They come to us with names that sing across our tongues like the lovely colors of their wings – scarlet tanager, indigo bunting, belted kingfisher, cerulean warblers, and northern flicker. They are the birds of the North Carolina High Country – the year-round residents, the seasonal migrants, the sparsely spotted interlopers that have been driven here by odd weather and confusion. Click here to learn more.