Patmos Road
Rowley
In-person, off-site event. We will be meeting at the Rough Meadows Wildlife Sanctuary in Rowley. Registration appreciated. Please sign up HERE. Rain date: Thursday, May 9
Because of the limited parking, we are encouraging people to carpool. If you would like to carpool, we are meeting at the library parking lot behind the library by 8:40AM.
David Moon will be our guide through Mass Audubon’s Rough Meadows Wildlife Sanctuary as we search out some of the many birds that make their homes in the Great Marsh. Early May is a time of increasing migration of tropical birds on their way to breeding habitats both in our region and further into the north country of Maine and Canada. David will share what he is seeing and hearing for birders of any level including beginners.
Recent advances in low-impact techniques hold great promise for helping the marsh to keep up with sea level rise, and David will also show the group what is going on with the salt marsh restoration work that they are planning at the sanctuary and across the Great Marsh.
Directions to Rough Meadows Wildlife Sanctuary:
From Route 1A in Rowley: Take Stackyard Road east 1/10 of a mile. Bear left at Patmos Road. Proceed 1/10 of a mile to the parking lot on the left-hand side of the road.
We will be on even terrain on dry roads and trails, but for some moments we will walk on and across squishy spots in the salt marsh. The total distance may be about 1.5 miles. We will meet in the Rough Meadows Wildlife Sanctuary parking lot on Patmos Rd.
David Moon is Community Science and Coastal Resilience Manager for Mass Audubon North Shore and works from Joppa Flats Education Center in Newburyport, where he helps to restore coastal habitats and leads birding programs. He has been a science teacher, environmental educator, and administrator of nature center programs for 40 years. He taught science at The Putney School in VT, was Executive Director of Ashuelot Valley Environmental Observatory, in Keene, New Hampshire, was Education Director at Stonewall Farm in Keene, and teaches tropical ecology for Franklin Pierce University in Costa Rica.