SD-Hot+Brook+Canyon


 * =Birding in South Dakota=

Fall River County
=Hot Brook Canyon= Hot Springs, SD 57747 Hot Brook Canyon map

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Hot Brook Canyon
Coordinates: 43.4452545, -103.5039997 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Tips for birding Hot Brook Canyon
Park offers good parking and birding along pathways. Proceeding up Hot Brook Canyon, walk or drive along road, pulling over at wide spots to check for birds as you proceed up the canyon. Nearby Cottonwood Springs Lake may have waterfowl on the lake and wading birds in the marshes. Common Loon has been seen here during spring migration. Another interesting area is Cold Brook Canyon, which is similar to Hot Brook Canyon. Bird this road the same as Hot Brook, pulling over at wide spots to check for birds. Cold Brook Canyon offers parking areas where one may spend time walking the area. Prairie Falcon, Red-naped Sapsucker, Hairy Woodpecker, Western Wood-Pewee, Cordilleran and Dusky flycatchers, Red-eyed Vireo, Warbling Vireo, Plumbeous Vireo, Blue Jay, Gray Catbird, Red-breasted Nuthatch, Yellow-rumped (Audubon’s) Warbler, Ovenbird, American Redstart, Yellow-breasted Chat, Western Tanager, Lazuli Bunting, Black-headed Grosbeak and Bullock’s Oriole. Look for White-throated Swift, Cliff and Violet-green swallows and Canyon Wren along the walls. Common Poorwills call from the canyon rim during summer evenings. Upper canyon: Mountain Bluebird, Townsend’s Solitaire, Pine Siskin and Red Crossbill. In migration: Orange-crowned, Blackpoll, Black-and-white and Wilson’s warblers. Rarity: Lesser Goldfinch, Pinyon Jay. From [|Black Hills, Badlands and Lakes Birding Trail]
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About Hot Brook Canyon
Riparian woodlands line the canyon floor and steep, red-rock cliffs form the canyon walls. Higher up the canyon, pine forest. From [|Black Hills, Badlands and Lakes Birding Trail]



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