View from Mt. Skylight  Photo by John Thaxton

                The Thaxtons

John Thaxton has written five books, including New York’s 50 Best Places to Go Birding In and Around the Big Apple (City & Company) and Natural Attractions:  A Select Guide to Experiencing North America’s Unique Wildlife and Wonders (Warner Books) as well as feature articles for periodicals such as Birder’s World, Conde Nast’s Traveler, Adirondack Life, Nature Photographer and The New York Times.

            For the past eleven years John has written the Birdwatch column for Adirondack Explorer.
John wrote a blog for the Albany Times Union:
http://blog.timesunion.com/adirondacks/author/
johnthaxton/

            John has lectured about birds at The American Museum of Natural History, Paul Smiths Visitor Interpretive Center, Adirondack Interpretive Center, Jamaica Bay National Wildlife Refuge, Adirondack Loj, Vermont Field and Forest Society and the New Jersey Sierra Club.

            He serves on the board of Northern New York Audubon and edits their newsletter.  He served as president of Happiness Is Camping:  For Children With Cancer, and serves as President of Adirondack Wildlife, Inc.

            Pat served as Laboratory Director at Long Island College Hospital in New York City and as the Laboratory Manager at Elizabethtown Community Hospital in the Adirondacks.  She served as President of the High Peaks Audubon Society and currently serves on the board of Northern New York Audubon and as chairperson of its Membership and Finance Committees; she is on the board of Adirondack Wildlife, Inc. 

            John & Pat are both Licensed New York State Guides and Adirondack 46ers, fully insured and rarin’ to go.  They are members of the American Birding Association and the New York State Ornithological Association.  For The Second Atlas of Breeding Birds in New York State, 2000-2005 (Cornell University Press) John & Pat covered 25 atlasing blocks, which included most of the Adirondack High Peaks.  For the past fourteen years they have led trips for the Paul Smiths Visitor Interpretive Center’s Great Adirondack Birding Celebration and for twelve years have led trips for Hamilton County’s Adirondack Birding Festival.

 Join them on an Adirondack Birding Tour.

            

John & Pat Thaxton Photo by Tom DuBois

Boreal Life Trail/Paul Smiths V IC Photo by John Thaxton

Mouth of the Boquet River at Noblewood Park, Lake Champlain Photo by John Thaxton

Lake Colden Photo by John Thaxton