 Glendalough is a good place to look for some of Ireland's newest breeding species, such as the goosander and the great spotted woodpecker, and some of the rarest, such as the common redstart and the wood warbler; peregrine, white-throated dipper, common cuckoo, eurasian jay and common buzzard can also be seen.There are nine way-marked trails of varying difficulty around Glendalough that are maintained by the Wicklow Mountains National Park (and who provide a map of all trails).Some of the trails stay on mostly flat-ground pathways around the two lakes of Glendalough ("The Miner's Road Walk", "Green Road Walk"), others lead up the Poolanass Waterfall area with options beyond into a network of forest paths (e.g.