For the Birds LbNA #40651
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Jun 6, 2008 |
| Location: | |
| City: | West Kingston |
| County: | Washington |
| State: | Rhode Island |
| Boxes: | 3 |
| Planted by: | laurette  |
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| Found by: | uneksia (3) |
| Last found: | Jan 22, 2019 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFOFFF |
| Last edited: | Sep 19, 2015 |
For the Birds
Great Swamp Management Area
Directions to start: from route 138 in West Kingston take Liberty Lane west until ity ends at the railroad tracks. Go left onto Great Neck Road. Pass the fish & wildlife headquarters to the parking lot at the end of the road. Park your car.
Clues: Go through the red gate and take to the trail. At the Muleedy Marker take a right. Travel a bit. Merge right at the wires. After pole 159 take a right at the Y. Along the road there is a field of corn on the right. Look at the field and walk in on the right (east) side 100 steps. Spy a single erratic, about knee-high, in the woods about 10 steps off the trail. Look in back.
Return to the trail and continue on your way down hill towards the impoundment. Walk all the way around the impoundment. It is a good haul but well worth the effort. The day I planted I saw heron, osprey, waterfowl and a good-sized snapping turtle laying her eggs in the bank. On the far side of the impoundment, there is a chair. Sit on it. Take a compass reading of 19. Follow your compass heading for 90 steps. STOP! See the big screen erratic at 19? Go to it and look on the east side under the tree.
Go back to the main trail and head up the hill. There is a field almost at the top. Now pay attention! Take a right into the field and walk all the way to the back. Turn right at the corner, then your 1st left through the opening into the next field. Stay straight briefly, then turn right onto a wide grassy lane. Take another quick right, staying on the grassy lane. That was R R L R R . Pass by a few more fields. Congratulate yourself on your terrific sense of direction when you see an erratic the size of a baby elephant standing on the side of the trail. This wide grassy lane eventually brings you to Worden’s Pond at the site of the now dismantled seaplane hangar. Take a left and head uphill. Walk past an incoming trail on the right, then past an incoming trail on the left. Walk past the Mulcahey Marker and the trail it denotes. Pass a huge new clearing on the left. Pass a second new clearing on the left. Stop at the north end. See the stone wall on the left. From here take 50 steps along the trail then look in the woods on the right for a large bear-sized erratic about 20 feet from the trail. Look on the lower east side.
Return to the trail and continue Northerly. Pass under the wires to enter an oak grove. There is also a lovely stand of American Holly on this stretch. Back at the Muleedy Marker take a right to return to your car.
Great Swamp Management Area
Directions to start: from route 138 in West Kingston take Liberty Lane west until ity ends at the railroad tracks. Go left onto Great Neck Road. Pass the fish & wildlife headquarters to the parking lot at the end of the road. Park your car.
Clues: Go through the red gate and take to the trail. At the Muleedy Marker take a right. Travel a bit. Merge right at the wires. After pole 159 take a right at the Y. Along the road there is a field of corn on the right. Look at the field and walk in on the right (east) side 100 steps. Spy a single erratic, about knee-high, in the woods about 10 steps off the trail. Look in back.
Return to the trail and continue on your way down hill towards the impoundment. Walk all the way around the impoundment. It is a good haul but well worth the effort. The day I planted I saw heron, osprey, waterfowl and a good-sized snapping turtle laying her eggs in the bank. On the far side of the impoundment, there is a chair. Sit on it. Take a compass reading of 19. Follow your compass heading for 90 steps. STOP! See the big screen erratic at 19? Go to it and look on the east side under the tree.
Go back to the main trail and head up the hill. There is a field almost at the top. Now pay attention! Take a right into the field and walk all the way to the back. Turn right at the corner, then your 1st left through the opening into the next field. Stay straight briefly, then turn right onto a wide grassy lane. Take another quick right, staying on the grassy lane. That was R R L R R . Pass by a few more fields. Congratulate yourself on your terrific sense of direction when you see an erratic the size of a baby elephant standing on the side of the trail. This wide grassy lane eventually brings you to Worden’s Pond at the site of the now dismantled seaplane hangar. Take a left and head uphill. Walk past an incoming trail on the right, then past an incoming trail on the left. Walk past the Mulcahey Marker and the trail it denotes. Pass a huge new clearing on the left. Pass a second new clearing on the left. Stop at the north end. See the stone wall on the left. From here take 50 steps along the trail then look in the woods on the right for a large bear-sized erratic about 20 feet from the trail. Look on the lower east side.
Return to the trail and continue Northerly. Pass under the wires to enter an oak grove. There is also a lovely stand of American Holly on this stretch. Back at the Muleedy Marker take a right to return to your car.