Description
In this northern part of the Nationalpark Schwarzwald you mainly see forest birds. When walking in the forest of you can come across flocks of different kinds of tits, such as sýkorka chochlatá, sýkorka uhliarka and mlynárka dlhochvostá together with králik zlatohlavý and králik ohnivohlavý. Look up when you here a pinecone fall from a tree, this happens when krivonos smrekový are foraging in the treetops. In this area you can see many different kinds of woodpeckers: tesár čierny, žlna zelená, ďateľ prostredný, ďateľ veľký and ďubník trojprstý. The Schwarzenbach river leads to the reservoir lake and hosts vodnár potočný and trasochvost horský. In this area the žľtochvost domový is very common, but do look out for the muchárik bielokrký and even the stehlík citrónový too.
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Access
There is a carpark in the village of Herrenwies, from where the area can be best explored by foot. Click on a P in the map to get directions to the parking of your choice. There is a tower on top of the Badener Höhe, the Friedrichsturm, which you can climb to overview the area. The circular walk indicated on the map is about 15 km long, but easy to cut in half.
