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This popular Felton attraction has train rides and a variety of special activities for families, but it also offers some good birding if one avoids the busy weekends and mid-day hours. A fee is charged at the main entrance on Graham Hill Rd 0.7 mile east of Hwy 9, but you may walk in for free from the main parking lot at Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park (provided you paid the day use fee there or hold an annual permit). Birding Roaring Camp combines nicely with birding at Henry Cowell. Check the ponds (near the covered bridge and behind the picnic tables) for Green Heron, Hooded Merganser, and other ducks. The surrounding forest has Pileated Woodpecker, Pygmy Nuthatch, and Brown Creeper. Wintering sparrow flocks here may have a White-throated Sparrow. An adjacent area with different habitat is along Graham Hill Rd 0.7 mile east from the entrance to Roaring Camp. Park in wide pullouts on the right (south) side, across from Ponderosa Lodge, and explore the network of unmarked trails leading south through forest of ponderosa and knobcone pines, live oaks and chaparral. This area has Pileated Woodpecker, Wrentit, California Thrasher, Pygmy Nuthatch, and nesting Black-throated Gray Warbler.
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