Great Blue Heron Rookery ~ Hoffman Notch Wilderness

A beaver pond on Rogers Brook

The Hoffman Notch Wilderness Area comprises 36,000 acres of New York State Forest Preserve. The area's southern border is Hoffman Road, running west from Schroon Lake village. Great Blue herons nest there each year, arriving from their southern sojourns in March, and timing their nesting to coincide with the annual ice out in mid April. This year ice out was three weeks earlier than normal.

A beaver pond created by damming Rogers Brook provides the standing tall dead trees that the birds prefer for nesting sites.  This year an osprey also nested on the east end of the marsh.

Three Story Townhouse, zoned multi-family residential

There are birds sitting on sixteen nests this year, compared to thirteen in 2011.  The herons frequently visit Bullet Pond to fish and forage for frogs along the shoreline.