If you are a birder the Birding Festival is in June.  Here is a list of all the species of birds one of our guests saw a few years ago, all within 20 miles of Blue Mountain Rest:

American crow, American goldfinch, American redstart, American robin, Barn swallow, Black and white warbler, Black-capped chickadee, Black-throated blue warbler, Black-throated green warbler, Blackburnian warbler, Blue Jay, Bonaparte’s Gull, Boreal chickadee, Brown-headed cowbird, Cedar waxwing, Chipping sparrow, Common grackle, Common loon, Common merganser, Common raven, Common yellowthroat, Dark-eyed junco, Downy woodpecker, Gray catbird, Great blue heron, Hairy woodpecker, Herring gull, Hooded merganser, Magnolia warbler, Mallard, Mourning dove, Northern flicker, Osprey, Ovenbird, Palm warbler, Pileated woodpecker, Pine warbler, Purple finch, Red-breasted nuthatch, Red-tailed hawk, Red-wing blackbird, Ring-necked duck, Rose-breasted grosbeak, Ruby-throated hummingbird, Ruffed grouse, Scarlet tanager, Song sparrow, Swainson’s Thrush, Swamp sparrow, Tree swallow, Tufted titmouse, Turkey vulture, Veery, White-breasted nuthatch, White-throated sparrow, Wild turkey, Wood thrush, Yellow-rumped warbler, Yellow warbler, and Yellow-bellied sapsucker.