Hammond Pond/Webster Woods, Newton
Hammond Pond and Houghton Gardens for early migrants. Trails can be muddy.
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Hammond Pond and Houghton Gardens for early migrants. Trails can be muddy.
We will walk one mile on good, mostly level trails.
Easy one to two-mile walk through mixed forest and open areas in search of resident and breeding birds.
One to two mile walk on good trails along the wetland and woods. Please read the "Meeting Place Description" carefully because it is a big park.
We’ll look for breeding Worm-eating Warblers, Prairie Warblers and Indigo Buntings. One to two miles of walking–most trails are good, but we may want to take some steeper and rockier paths.
We will walk one mile on good, mostly level trails.
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We hope to see you out birding soon!
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