NH-Brentwood+Mitigation+Area


 * =Birding in New Hampshire=

Rockingham County
Brentwood =Brentwood Mitigation Area= Brentwood, New Hampshire 03833 Brentwood Mitigation Area Important Bird Area information

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Brentwood Mitigation Area
Coordinates: 43.0102245, -71.0185131 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Tips on birding Brentwood Mitigation Area
From New Hampshire Auduboni

About Brentwood Mitigation Area
(Also known as the Deer Hill Wildlife Management Area, though that name has not been publicized.)


 * Location**: Pine Road, Brentwood. Between exits 8 and 9 on NH-101. From exit 8, go north 0.3 miles to NH-27, turn right and go 1.1 miles to Pine Road. From exit 9, go west 1.8 miles on NH-27 to Pine Road. On Pine Road go south 0.4 miles under NH-101 and just past Seacoast Mills Building Supply. A gated entrance and small parking area are on the right side of Pine Road as you're heading south.


 * Target birds**: Spring/summer/fall birding. Over 120 species have been seen here, see the list below. The only sizable breeding population of Pied-billed Grebe in the state (5 pairs produced 16 young in 2006). Wood & Ring-necked Ducks, Hooded Merganser, American Kestrel, Spotted Sandpiper, Great Blue & Green Herons, Tree & Barn Swallows, Eastern Kingbird, Gray Catbird, Brown Thrasher, Cedar Waxwing, Blue-winged, Nashville, Palm, Prairie, Yellow, Yellow-rumped, Common Yellowthroat, & other Warblers, Scarlet Tanager, Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Eastern Towhee, Field Sparrow, Red-winged Blackbird, Baltimore & Orchard Orioles, American Goldfinch. Raptor and Gull flyovers from time to time.


 * Description**: A detailed article was published in the Spring 2006 issue of New Hampshire Bird Records

100 acres of constructed wetlands built after gravel removed during Rt. 101 improvements from 1994 to 1997. A series of ponds with marsh and upland scrub-shrub habitat. Swamp with Great Blue Heron rookery (16 nests in 2006), where Great Horned Owls have also nested. Powerline right-of-way. Some forest on outer edges. About 4 miles of trails that are not mowed (grass can get 7 feet high in spots). One 200-foot section of trail is normally flooded several inches deep (bring dry socks and shoes or waterproof knee-high boots).

Tick and insect repellent highly recommended. Friday afternoons and weekends from late-Spring through Fall can be noisy because of the nearby New England Dragway. No shade to speak of and no restroom facilities.

Hunting is allowed after October 1, when Ring-necked Pheasants are released. Dozens of hunters may be present during weekends in October, so that is not a good time to bird.

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 * **Bird List for this Site:**

Birds seen and heard since May, 2005 131 species as of March 25, 2009 Canada Goose Wood Duck American Black Duck Mallard Green-winged Teal Ring-necked Duck Scaup species Bufflehead Common Goldeneye Hooded Merganser Common Merganser Ring-necked Pheasant (released each fall) Ruffed Grouse Wild Turkey Common Loon Pied-billed Grebe Double-crested Cormorant Great Blue Heron Great Egret Green Heron Black-crowned Night-Heron Turkey Vulture Osprey Northern Harrier Sharp-shinned Hawk Cooper's Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk Broad-winged Hawk Red-tailed Hawk American Kestrel Merlin Sora American Coot Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Spotted Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Wilson's Snipe American Woodcock Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull Great Black-backed Gull Rock Pigeon Mourning Dove Black-billed Cuckoo Great Horned Owl Chimney Swift Ruby-throated Hummingbird Belted Kingfisher Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker Alder Flycatcher Willow Flycatcher Least Flycatcher Eastern Phoebe Great Crested Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird Warbling Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Blue Jay American Crow Tree Swallow Northern Rough-winged Swallow Barn Swallow Black-capped Chickadee Tufted Titmouse Red-breasted Nuthatch House Wren Ruby-crowned Kinglet Golden-crowned Kinglet Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Eastern Bluebird Veery Hermit Thrush Wood Thrush American Robin Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher European Starling Cedar Waxwing Blue-winged Warbler Orange-crowned Warbler Nashville Warbler Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Magnolia Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Pine Warbler Prairie Warbler Palm Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Black-and-white Warbler American Redstart Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush Common Yellowthroat Connecticut Warbler Mourning Warbler Wilson's Warbler Canada Warbler Scarlet Tanager Eastern Towhee American Tree Sparrow Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Fox Sparrow Song Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Northern Cardinal Rose-breasted Grosbeak Indigo Bunting Eastern Meadowlark Red-winged Blackbird Rusty Blackbird Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird Orchard Oriole Baltimore Oriole Purple Finch American Goldfinch || L304161 US US-NH US-NH-015 43.0102245 -71.0185131 Brentwood Mitigation Area