Where to Bird
Find your next favorite birding hotspot. Discover where and how to bird across New Hampshire. Let local birders be your guide with favorite spots and insider tips.
April 15, 2026
A guide to finding the elusive Black-backed Woodpecker at Pondicherry National Wildlife Refuge, including habitat, seasonal timing, and the best trails to explore.
April 15, 2026
Wetherby Road in Charlestown has emerged as a premier birding hotspot in the Connecticut River Valley, attracting an impressive diversity of migrants each spring and fall. From flooded cornfields teeming with waterfowl to dense scrub that concentrates passerines, this unassuming road offers exceptional birding—and the potential for rare finds.
February 23, 2026
Part 2 of this guide to birding Concord’s Merrimack River floodplain explores the rich habitats north of downtown, including West Locke Road, Turtle Pond, the SPNHF floodplain, Sewall’s Falls, and Morono Park. From marshes and farmland to silver maple forest and river rapids, these sites offer outstanding birding in every season.
February 23, 2026
Part 1 of this guide to birding Concord’s Merrimack River floodplain explores the southern floodplains, pine barrens, and the city’s central waterbird hotspot at Horseshoe Pond. From grassland sparrows and nighthawks near the airport to migrating ducks and gulls downtown, these accessible sites offer excellent birding throughout the year.
October 19, 2025
Downtown Dover may not be your first thought for prime birding locations, but it was the place I first grew to love birding when I moved here four years ago. It isn’t always the easiest place to bird, and like a lot of more urban birding areas the places to find the birds can be disconnected and not immediately obvious.
October 15, 2025
Pawtuckaway State Park spans 5,500 acres across Deerfield and Nottingham, NH, and features diverse landscapes of mountains, lakes, and oak forests. Known for attracting southern warblers and a wide range of breeding and migratory birds, the park offers outstanding birding along Reservation, Tower, and Round Pond Roads.
October 8, 2025
These days, when one mentions birding Horseshoe Pond, it is necessary to distinguish between the site in Concord (traditionally the more frequented) and the one in Merrimack. The latter has, in my humble and admittedly biased opinion, more than earned its place among the worthwhile birding hotspots in the south-central portion of the state.
March 8, 2024
The Seabrook Town Forest and Wellfield (as the hotspot is called in eBird) is a great secret birding spot. As of June 12, 2024, a total of 142 species have been seen there. Aside from birds, there is plenty of other wildlife.