There will be a Sassafras Audubon Society bird watching hike on Saturday, June 22 on the Pate Hollow Trail at Paynetown SRA at 7:30 a.m. We will meet in the trailhead parking lot behind the Lake Monroe office building on SR 446. This outing will be more physically challenging than our usual bird walks, as we plan to hike a 3-mile loop trail. The hike should conclude between 9:30 and 11:00 a.m.

Last year we did this trip and found 27 species of birds, including 4 species of warblers, and we got a couple of brief looks at a Yellow-billed Cuckoo at treetop, and good looks at a singing Summer Tanager. A few of us did see a Scarlet Tanager at the lot before the hike started, and a Yellow-throated Warbler at the lot, as people were leaving.

Please pre-register by contacting leader Pete Webb pete6314webb@gmail.com or 443-904-6314. Maximum of 20 people.

Directions: from intersection of state routes 46 and 446 east of Bloomington, go south on Rt 446 6.2 miles, turn right towards park office building, just before main park entrance. Follow loop around behind the building and park at far left northwest corner of the lot, Pate Hollow Trailhead.
(Follow the U-shaped loop which keeps park building on right, then at lot go to far left corner ahead of you. https://goo.gl/maps/Syxz4UE6qAvDJgQU6).

Photo by David Rupp.