Piney Tract
Limestone Flat Road

 

Directions:  Another 0.4 miles east, the dirt road intersects with Limestone Flat Road - also dirt. Turn right. The road passes by brush, pines, and deciduous forest. Ovenbird, other warblers, and passerines can be found here in breeding season and migration. Eastern Screech-Owl can be heard whinnying at night in the hollows. This is a good place to find Sharp-shinned or Cooper's hawks (even Red-shouldered Hawk in migration!). Merlin have been noted through this area hunting and large flocks of migrants use the thickets to feed and roost. Rusty Blackbird are found in the wetter areas during migration. After about a mile is a large area of cattails that holds Swamp Sparrow and occasionally a Carolina Wren. In migration, waterthrushes and other migrants may be found here. Olive-sided Flycatcher have been seen perched in the snags to the west during migration. Past the turn for Wyman Rd, travel through some conifers. Some rarities have been seen here during migration and in the stands of larches and pines just south of here. Orange-crowned Warbler and Townsend's Solitaire have been found in these areas. Chipping Sparrow, Song Sparrow, and thrushes can be found here. This is Area 8. This area attracts lots of migrants. American Robin in large flocks congregate here. Cedar Waxwing and mixed flocks of warblers seem to use this area. Continue down Limestone Flat Road until you reach PA 58. You are now leaving Piney Tract.

 

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