Monday, June 29, 2026

Day 19.170: Shepard's Farm Preserve

Our first stop in Norway was at Shepard's Farm Preserve. It's a park with sculptures adjoining trails to Witt's Swamp. Here are some photos.







The trail names and signs have fun with the name of the swamp:




We saw some birds and some interesting plants which I'll save for another day, but the birds we only heard may have been the highlight of the trails. We heard an Eastern wood pewee, black-throated green warblers and oven birds and were serenaded as we looped around the swamp by winter wrens, but the most magical moment was standing on a trail in the woods with at least two hermit thrushes calling around us here is a tiny flavor (sound only):


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