These links are a companion to the interpretive signage along the Yadkin River Nature Trail at Tanglewood County Park. Nature observers may wish to use these links to read more about a species and it’s habitat, view more photographs, hear recordings of sounds it makes and learn about related topics. To find out more about Forsyth Audubon and its activities, check other pages on this web site. If you have a problem with a link on this page, send email to webmaster@fosythaudubon.org.
The Yadkin River Nature Trail
- Trail map with distances
- Yadkin River Map
- History of Shallow Ford
- Prothonotary Warbler
- Zebra Swallowtail Butterfly
- Raccoon
- Birds of the Wetlands/Controlled Burn
- We saved paradise/Controlled Burn
Night Stalkers
- More about owl vision, hearing and feathers
- Barred Owl
- Great Horned Owl
- Eastern Screech Owl
- Owl pellets
Home Among the Pines
Birds of the Wetlands
What can you do?
- Creating bird-friendly communities
- Cats
- Interactive database for native plants
- Recommended Native Plants
- Invasive plant list
- Invasive Plant Rankings
- Pesticide use and birds
- National Audubon Society
- Monarch Caterpillar
- Native Milkweeds
- Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly
- Purple Coneflower
- Carolina Praying Mantis
Sticking Its Neck Out
When is a blue bird not a Bluebird?
Nature’s Helpers
- Pollinators
- Ruby-throated Hummingbird
- Gray Hairstreak
- Buckeye
- Monarch
- Monarch migration
- Zebra Swallowtail
- Pipevine Swallowtail
- Honeybees
We saved paradise
- Song Sparrow
- Native grasses
- Black-eyed Susan
- Controlled burn
- Natural succession
- Field Sparrow
- White-throated Sparrow
- Dark-eyed Junco
- American Goldfinch
- Native Thistle
- Eastern Towhee
Rulers of the Skies
- Bald Eagle
- Peregrine Falcon
- Red-tailed Hawk
- Red-shouldered Hawk
- Birds of Prey
- Ingesting contaminants
Knock, knock. Who’s there?
- Red-bellied Woodpecker
- Red-headed Woodpecker
- Downy Woodpecker
- Pileated Woodpecker
- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
There are two additional woodpeckers found in our area