Inventor's Notes

While spring migration in the Adirondacks begins as a trickle in March and then grows through April, May is marked on the calendar of every birdwatcher in the North Country. They have waited through the cold and often quiet winter for this time of year when a windfall of migratory landbirds arrive enmass to the Adirondacks. Birds suddenly fill the woods and yards, just as they fill birders with joy. Many of these species will stay and breed for the summer, while others just pass through briefly.

After a morning of fishing or enjoying many of the Adirondack waterways, take a stop at John Brown Farm State Historic Site for John Brown Day. The John Brown Farm State Historic Site is hosting the annual John Brown Live! Day celebrating the abolitionists John Brown and Frederick Douglass.

This Adirondack Earth Day there are many things to celebrate and many ways to show our appreciation for Mother Earth and the six-million acre Adirondack Park. 

I ski and hike all winter, but the first few hikes of spring are always a special joy. Warming temps begin to dry out the landscape and budding trees dot the trails and hillsides as birds find their songs after their winter silence.

We are getting all set for the first springtime paddle ofthe season. We are getting boats out of storage and moving the winter gear to the back of the garage. Springtime can be chilly in the Adirondacks but trees are starting to bud and the ice has melted off of most ponds.