Wilson
M. Powell
Wildlife Sanctuary
Last updated 3/3/06
Reilly
Pond, Wilson M. Powell Sanctuary
Photo by Marcia Anderson
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The preserve, protected by the Columbia County Land
Conservancy, is owned by Alan Devoe Bird Club and provides a great
deal of natural diversity in approximately 145 acres including a stream,
a marshy area, glades and Reilly Pond. The Sanctuary provides habitat
for Barred Owls, Common Ravens, Veery, Louisiana Waterthrushes and
many other song birds. There is a small marshy pond and fern-caparisoned
stream valley, and the cliff face itself holds treasures of ferns
and lichens not found elsewhere in the Sanctuary. Dorson’s Rock,
overlooking the magnificent Hudson Valley offers opportunities for
hawk watching and unusual flora. Do take a short hike up to Dorson’s
Rock for panoramic views across the Hudson Valley to the distant Catskill
Mountains, scanning the sky for Red-shouldered, Red-tailed and Broad-winged
Hawks. |
For more information
about the Sanctuary and its history, see our History
page.
Directions:
Located off County Route 13, one mile southwest of the intersection
of CR 13 and the Old Albany Turnpike (Old Chatham Village Square), take
Pitt Hall Road, then a left on Hunt Club Road, Sanctuary entrance on right.
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