NH-Warwick+Preserve


 * =Birding in New Hampshire=

Cheshire County
Westmoreland =Warwick Preserve=

The Nature Conservancy
Westmoreland, New Hampshire 03467 Warwick Preserve webpage

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Warwick Preserve, Westmoreland
Coordinates: 42.971925, -72.4514127 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

About Warwick Preserve
From NH-9 take NH-12 north for 6.4 miles, bringing you to east Westmoreland. Take a left onto South Village Road, which you will follow for 3.7 miles before arriving in the village of Westmoreland. From here take a right onto NH-63 and travel 0.9 mile to arrive at Warwick Preserve access point. Parking space for three to four vehicles is available, just South of a small white-railed bridge.

In 1964, the Warwick Preserve was the first New Hampshire property donated to The Nature Conservancy. The preserve is located on Butterfield Hill in a quiet part of southwestern New Hampshire, not far from the Connecticut River. Its rugged terrain includes the rushing waters of Partridge Brook and a mixed forest of hemlock, sugar maple, red oak, and basswood. Forty-foot high rocky outcrops provide views of the river. Large boulders litter the forest floor below the rocky ridges creating habitat for snakes, porcupines, and bobcats.

While most of New Hampshire tends to have acidic soils, the calcium-rich bedrock in Westmoreland has resulted in rich, alkaline soils that provide habitat for a diversity of plant life that is uncommon in the state. Rare plants found here are the broad beech fern, a beautiful purple and white orchid called the showy orchis, spotted wintergreen, and long-spurred violet. Other alkaline-loving plants found here include maidenhair spleenwort, spring beauty, and Dutchman’s breeches. A visit to the preserve in late spring or early summer will reveal some of these plants as well as neotropical migrant birds, including warbler and thrush species, and scarlet tanagers. From Warwick Preserve webpage



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