Song Birds - Boundary Creek Natural Resource Area - Moorestown, NJ
N 40° 00.555 W 074° 54.206
18T E 508241 N 4428788
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: WMA8WA
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. This particular sign has a observation platform with it, as do a handful of other ones. The interpretive let's you know what you can expect to see and for what to look. I saw a few species of winged creatures on my visit. The observable area is much more developed than satellite pics show.
Visitors can 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.
The interpretive is wonderfully colorful with excellent pictures of local song birds. With each picture are descriptions and other important particulars about the bird. The top caption reads: A wide variety of songbirds exist in Burlington County including crows, jays, wrens, chickadees, warblers, vireos, flycatchers, swallows, thrushes, tanagers, orioles, blackbirds, sparrows, and finches. The most recognized songbirds are often those with the most melodious songs or brightest colors. Look and listen for these songbirds at Boundary Creek.
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, and then one on the right. The path curves to the left and there will be a small path off to the left. Walk down the path and the interpretive is on the right. The observation platform is a few feet away. The marker due east and 480 feet from the main building, as the crow flies.