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 čopasta sinica, menišček and dolgorepka together with rumenoglavi kraljicek and rdečeglavi kraljiček. Look up when you here a pinecone fall from a tree, this happens when krivokljun are foraging in the treetops. In this area you can see many different kinds of woodpeckers: črna žolna, zelena žolna, srednji detel, veliki detel and triprsti detel. The Schwarzenbach river leads to the reservoir lake and hosts povodni kos and siva pastirica. In this area the šmarnica is very common, but do look out for the belovrati muhar and even the konopeljščica 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.
