Description:  At 0.7 miles from Tunkhannock Creek, park on the left at a gate that is the access point for Grass Lake. Refer to the map of Grass Lake for directions. The barrens are home to dozens of interesting bird species in summer, including Veery, Hermit Thrush, Eastern Towhee, Indigo Bunting, Brown Thrasher, and House Wren. There is a rich representation of warblers, with Nashville, Pine, Black-and-white, Chestnut-sided, Prairie, Common Yellowthroat, American Redstart, and Ovenbird easily found. Golden-winged Warbler breeds uncommonly in the barrens. Whip-poor-will can readily be heard at night along the road from late May through early July. Continue along the road for 0.5 miles to another gate on the left. This is another access point to miles of trails through the scrub. In scrub oak barrens, the vegetation grows to a 6 foot-high impenetrable tangle that makes chasing birds off the paths very difficult, if not impossible. In many spots, the landscape is dominated by rhodora, a wild azalea. Long Pond is the only place in the world with an extensive rhodora dominated shrub community. This waist-high plant produces beautiful pink flowers in early May. If you continue on, the dirt road becomes paved and winds down off the Pocono Plateau through an unfragmented deciduous forest. This quiet road offers easy opportunity for good roadside birding. Turn back on Hypsy Gap Road to return to Kuhenbeaker Road. At Kuhenbeaker Road, turn left, drive 200 feet and cross a bridge over Tunkhannock Creek. Park on the south side of the bridge (don't block the fire hydrant or gate). The gate at the parking lot is the starting point to explore more scrub oak barrens via Mud Pond Road. Listen for Alder Flycatcher and Northern Waterthrush on the other side of the creek. In these barrens you can see both wetness-adapted plants (tamarack, cranberry, sphagnum moss) and dryness-adapted plants (scrub oak, pitch pine) living together—one of the unusual features of the Long Pond area.