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Town of Bethlehem, Swendsen Farm Preserve

Town of Bethlehem, Swendsen Farm Preserve. Wet Meadow. Southerly View of Wet Meadow Trail-Head. $25,000 grant used to install bridges, boardwalks and signage. Handicapped Accessible Ramp-Bridge to Viewing Platform. Easterly view from Handicapped Accessible Viewing Platform.

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Town of Bethlehem, Swendsen Farm Preserve

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  1. Town of Bethlehem, Swendsen Farm Preserve Wet Meadow

  2. Southerly View of Wet Meadow Trail-Head $25,000 grant used to install bridges, boardwalks and signage.

  3. Handicapped Accessible Ramp-Bridge to Viewing Platform

  4. Easterly view from Handicapped Accessible Viewing Platform

  5. EROSION FROM CORNFIELD

  6. Average Percent Cover of Wetland Plants • Panicumclandestinum 51.3 % • Typhalatifolia 15.2 • Carexstricta 11.2 • Scirpuscyperinus 5.8 • Poa spp. 5.3 • Solidagorugosa 2.3 • Rosa palustris 2.3 • Solidagograminifolia 2.0 • Agrostisperennans 1.3 • Onocleasensibilis 1.0 • Galiumpalustre 1.0 • Potentilla spp. 0.7 • Rumexverticillatus 0.3

  7. Westerly View over Wet Meadow from Pond Red Maples starting to emerge in the meadow

  8. Bird Sightings 10/08 to 8/09 • WATERFOWL SHOREBIRDS • Wood Duck Killdeer • Mallard Spotted Sandpiper • Green-winged Teal PIGEONS AND DOVES • Hooded Merganser Rock Pigeon GROUSE, QUAIL AND ALLIES Mourning Dove Wild Turkey HUMMINGBIRDS CORMORANTS Ruby-throated Hummingbird Double-crested Cormorant KINGFISHERS HERONS, IBIS AND STORKS Belted Kingfisher Great Blue Heron WOODPECKERS Green Heron Red-bellied Woodpecker VULTURES, DIURNAL RAPTORS, AND FALCONS Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Black Vulture Downy Woodpecker Turkey Vulture Hairy Woodpecker Osprey Northern Flicker Northern Harrier Pileated Woodpecker Sharp-shinned Hawk TYRANT FLYCATCHERS Cooper’s Hawk Eastern Phoebe Northern Goshawk Eastern Kingbird Red-shouldered Hawk VIREO Red-tailed Hawk Warbling Vireo American Kestrel Red-eyed Vireo

  9. Bird Sightings continued • JAYS AND CROWS THRUSHES • Blue Jay Eastern Bluebird • American Crow Hermit Thrush • Fish Crow Wood Thrush LARKS American Robin Horned Lark CATBIRDS AND MOCKINGBIRDS MARTINS AND SWALLOWS Gray Catbird Tree Swallow Northern Mockingbird Barn Swallow STARLINGS CHICKADEES AND TITMICE European Starling Black-capped Chickadee PIPITS Tufted Titmouse American Pipit NUTHATCHES AND CREEPERS WAXWINGS White-breasted Nuthatch Cedar Waxwing WRENS Carolina Wren KINGLETS golden-crowned Kinglet Ruby-crowned Kinglet

  10. Simple White Oak Boardwalk Boards are nailed down to anchor posts

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