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Mill Banks Farm features an old farmhouse, built in 1832. The site provides wonderful habitat for great birding along the edges of 70 acres of woodlands. Within easy walking distance there are two beautiful two-acre ponds surrounded by hardwoods and pines -- very attractive to various birds and especially warblers. Wild turkeys have been seen on the property and Wood Ducks are frequently found on the ponds. There is also a cleared trail to the Bogue Falaya River to access the riparian habitat.
- Easy to moderate walk.
- We will be treated to a traditional southern breakfast of grillades and grits.
- Wintering Birds: Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Yellow-rumped (Myrtle) Warbler, White-throated Sparrow.
- Resident and Breeding Birds: Great Blue and Green Herons; Great and Cattle Egrets; Wood Duck, Red-shouldered Hawk, Northern Bobwhite, Killdeer, Barred Owl, Belted Kingfisher, Red-bellied, Downy and Pileated Woodpeckers; Northern (Yellow-shafted) Flicker, Acadian and Great-crested Flycatcher; White-eyed Vireo, Brown-headed Nuthatch, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Eastern Bluebird, Wood Thrush, Northern Parula, Pine-, Prothonotary- and Hooded Warblers; Summer Tanager, Eastern Towhee, Orchard Oriole, and more.
- Possible Migrants: Mississippi Kite, Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Eastern Wood Pewee, Yellow-throated and Red-eyed Vireos; Scarlet Tanager, Indigo Bunting, and more.
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