Category: Birds

Rural Roadside

by mybirdwalks, posted in Birds, High Points, North Carolina

ROCKINGHAM

1061′

(#36/100 North Carolina county highpoints)

After an ambitious hike in Stokes County, we were pretty sure that the Rockingham highpoint would be a disappointment, being as it was just a bump in the field about 20 feet off the road.

But there is something magical about the first hour of daylight,

And the birdsong! We hear Wood Thrushes, warblers, an Orchard Oriole, and a faraway Wild Turkey.

Mary in the Crimson Clover at the highpoint.

After the highpoint we stopped to bird at Haw River State Park.

Prothonotary Warbler

And that’s pretty much a perfect day, right there.