Great Bend Park at Glencoe is on the North Carolina Birding Trail. We’re hoping that this site can be a place where visitors to the park tell us about bird sitings out on the trail! We’ll keep an updated species list, so tell us what birds you’ve seen out there, and if you get pictures, send those to us too!
***PHOTO CONTEST*** You can email your Glencoe bird photos to me, cehrfurth@hedgehogholdings.com, and I’ll post them here, on our blog. We’ll award the best photo submission between now and September 1, 2009 with a copy of Roger Tory Peterson’s Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America.
Birds sited at Glencoe:
- Great Blue Heron
- Osprey
- Canadian Goose
- Turkey Vultures
North Carolina Birding Resources
3 responses so far ↓
Ann Hobgood // January 16, 2009 at 5:46 pm
I’ll keep a lookout! Over the years I’ve lived at Glencoe (1999-now), I have seen Turkey Vultures near the entrance to the park off Greenwood Rd. I used to cut my Christmas trees in those woods before it was a park. Turkey Vultures are very skittish so I don’t know if I’ll ever get a picture of one! They’re so ugly they’re cute, I think.
cehrfurth // January 19, 2009 at 10:13 am
Yes, ugly-cute! I totally agree. Turkey vultures are amazing looking birds. I have always thought that they are very dinosaur-like.
Ann Hobgood // February 26, 2009 at 10:55 am
On Monday February 16, I spotted a bald eagle flying about 30-40 feet right over my driveway on Glencoe St. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! By the time I grabbed my camera, he had made a large low circle over toward Highway 62 and out of sight! There was a photo in the newspaper of a bald eagle in Alamance County in January. Hope someone can get a photo of him in Glencoe!