Birding & Spring Nature Weekend
May 16-18, 2025
Birding & Spring Nature Weekend
As springtime awakens, Mohonk is the perfect place for bird watchers of all levels. Join us on Birding & Spring Nature weekend with environmental educators for hikes, bird walks, workshops, and an exploration of the natural world as it awakens on our mountaintop. Birding & Spring Nature program is led by Kurt Weiskotten, who has been the program leader since 1985.
What’s Included
Your stay at Mohonk Mountain House includes access to countless activities and experiences for guest of all ages, including our indoor pool, tennis courts, show gardens, and an award-winning spa. Discover all that Mohonk has to offer during your mountaintop getaway.
Entertainment
Themed Mohonk Signature Events, featuring live music and engaging performances, changing daily
Schedule of Events
Program Leaders
Kurt Weiskotten
Kurt Weiskotten has devoted his life to birds and nature in all forms and enjoys spending time on ocean shores and Adirondack mountaintops. He has a BS and MS from the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry at Syracuse and spent a summer deep in the north woods of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan studying boreal flora and ornithology. His furthest travels have taken him to Nepal and northern Burma. He has worked as a free-lance artist, environmental educator, llama herder, wetland scientist, and is currently an environmental scientist with Greenman-Pedersen, Inc. Consultants in Albany.
Michael Losito
Michael Losito is a Professor of Wildlife Management at the State University of New York at Cobleskill where he has been teaching ornithology and herpetology for over 30 years. He is a certified Wildlife Biologist, Master Bird Bander, and a Life Member of the National Geographic Society.
Wayne Gall
Wayne Gall has led numerous nature programs at Mohonk Mountain House. He served as the Buffalo Museum of Science’s first Administrator/Naturalist of Tifft Nature Preserve from 1983-1987, then Research Fellow and Curator of Entomology for the museum from 1987-2001. From 2001-2016 he was Western Regional Entomologist for the NYS Department of Health. From 2016-2023 Wayne served as Entomologist (Identifier) for the US Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. Wayne earned his MS in Entomology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and PhD in Zoology from the University of Toronto.
Greg Budney
Greg Budney is a former Audio Curator of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds, the world’s largest collection of wildlife sound recordings. He is also a leading bird sound recordist and has produced numerous audio guides to sounds of North American birds. He has trained hundreds of biologists and citizen scientists in techniques for capturing the sounds of wildlife for research, conservation, and education.
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