Our Wild Turkey
Dr. Franklin was correct – the Wild Turkey is a magnificent American.
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Article Author: William McReynolds - Highlands Plateau Audubon Society
Living Up to Their Name
This busy bird feeds on the forest floor where it creates a stir by upending leaves to look under them for insects.
Costume Ball Waxwings
Brilliantly plumaged, enthusiastic berry pluckers, and sometimes slightly tipsy, Cedar Waxwings are cheerful Plateau residents.
Summer Beauty
The jaunty male American Goldfinch is a lemon-yellow exclamation point darting through the Plateau’s forests
and meadows.
Force of Nature
Even the illustrious Dr. Franklin was wrong once in a while – the Turkey is a distant second to the magnificent Bald Eagle as our National Bird.
A Parliament of Owls
This legendary creature haunts our forests and woodlands.
Our Winter Flocks
Your feathered neighbors could use a measure of neighborly love.
The Birds of Christmas
This Christmas, remember the Birds and the Beasts that share the Plateau with all of us.
Our Winter Waterfowl
Our winged winter residents provide color and sound and life to our ice-rimmed wetlands, but they’re dwindling in number.
Waterfalls of the Southern Blue Ridge
Ed and Cindy Boos illuminate and elucidate their discoveries of the natural world here on the Plateau in a beguiling exhibit at Hudson Library in Highlands.
