NYS BIRDING TRAIL EXPANDS

Welcome to Everything Croton, a collection of all things Croton--our history, our homes, our issues, our businesses, our schools, our houses of worship--in short, EVERYTHING CROTON.



NYS Birding Trail Expands!

We are excited to announce the addition of 12 new locations to the New York State Birding Trail. The newest additions to the trail bring the total number of sites to 402! The new additions provide a diversity of habitats that include forests, meadows, vernal pools, streams, and peat bogs. Although habitats vary across the locations, these sites offer great opportunities to observe seasonal migrating birds such as woodland warblers and flycatchers.
The newest additions to the Birding Trail are:

Central – Finger Lakes: 

Butternut Creek Recreation & Nature Area
Cobb’s Hill Park
Durand Eastman Park
Highland Park
Irondequoit Bay North (Irondequoit Bay State Marine Park)
Lime Hollow Nature Center
Mendon Ponds Park
Oatka Creek Park

Hudson Valley: 

Black Rock Forest
Edith G. Read Sanctuary
Jay Estate (Jay Heritage Center)
Locust Grove Morse Young Estate

The New York State Birding Trail is committed to offering an inclusive experience that encourages all visitors to experience birding. Several of the newest additions to the Birding Trail have a variety of wheelchair accessible features, including an accessible trail at Lime Hollow Nature Center that connects to an observation deck. A battery-powered, all-terrain Action TrackChair is also available at the Nature Center for visitor use.