Habitat: Forest - Boundary Creek Natural Resource Area - Moorestown, NJ
N 40° 00.523 W 074° 54.228
18T E 508210 N 4428729
While visiting this newly established park (2009), I walked along the walkway which wraps around the entire park, bringing you back to where you began, I came across over a dozen of these wonderfully informative nature signs, including this one.
Waymark Code: WMA8W6
Location: New Jersey, United States
Date Posted: 12/04/2010
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These informative signs tell all about this 34 acre park which offers visitors fantastic opportunities for bird watching and wildlife viewing. Upland and lowland forests, fields, tidal wetlands, and the open water of the Rancocas Creek all overlap in this relatively small area to create a haven for all types of birds and other wildlife.
Visitors will experience fields, shrub/scrub, forest, marsh and river without having to trek far or manage rough terrain. The park has wide, level trails, observation platforms and blinds, good signage, rest rooms and safe parking. The observation platforms overlooking Rancocas Creek can provide interesting sightings in any season, from waterfowl in winter to jumping fish, basking turtles, and flycatchers hawking insects in warmer months. This park was designed specifically for birding and wildlife watching.
This interpretive explains the local habitat, providing information about the habitat itself and what you can expect to see and find. The pictures are bright and beautiful. The information is essential. For instance, did you know a forest is one of the three major habitat types in Boundary Creek NRA? Also, did you know that deciduous forests contain board-leaf tree species such as oak, hickory, maple, American Beech and Tulip Trees as well as understory shade-tolerant species such as Flowering Dogwood and seasonal herbaceous (non-wody) plants on the forest floor such as Canada Mayflower, Jack-in-the-pulpit, violets, grasses and ferns? Betcha didn't know that!
To find this marker without a GPSr, park your car at the rotary, walk to the right of the bicycle tender, taking the first and only path. Walk the windy path, you will pass a waymarked interpretive on the left. As the path begins to curve to the left, you will see this interpretive on the right, southeast of the main building. The marker is 450 feet from the main building, as the crow flies.