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Pennsylvania Whirlwind Warbler Tour Trip Leaders Dr. Scott Stoleson and Don Watts The Whirlwind Warbler Tour is a prefestival event that will take up most of the day on Thursday June 10, 2010. Participants meet at the Holiday Inn parking lot in Warren, Pennsylvania. Set your GPS units for 210 Ludlow Street Warren, PA 16365 for driving directions. From there we'll travel by bus to the below listed sites. Cost $40. per person - Lunch and transportaion provided. For those driving from Jamestown, we will have a "park and ride" at the Carnahan Building on the Jamestown Community College Campus. Meet at the Carnahan Building at 6:15 AM and we'll drive to Warren to meet the group at 7:00 AM. The 121-acre Hearts Content Tract is one of the last remaining stands of virgin timber in Pennsylvania, with White Pines over 160 feet high. Experiencing Hearts Content gives the visitor a feel for the adjacent half-million acres of Allegheny National Forest. A wealth of warblers will be the focus of this trip in northern Pennsylvania just south of the New York line. We’ll explore a series of sites including sycamore woodlands along the Allegheny River, thickets, towering hardwood forests, and an old-growth pine-hemlock grove to cover all the major habitat types found locally. Warblers we’ll target include Blue-winged, Northern Parula, Yellow-throated, Cerulean, Blackburnian, Black-throated Blue, Black-throated Green, Magnolia, Black-and-white, Hooded, Louisiana Waterthrush, and others. Other birds likely to be seen include Common Merganser, Bald Eagle, Blue-headed and Yellow-throated Vireos, Scarlet Tanager, Swainson’s Thrush and Winter Wren.
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