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Middlesex County
=Heard's Conservation Land= =Heard Pond= Wayland, Massachusetts 01778

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Heard's Conservation Land--Heard Pond
Coordinates: 42.3553251, -71.3839459 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

About Heard's Conservation Land
Heard Farm consists of 85 acres of extremely diverse land, including corn and hay fields, abandoned fields at different stages of reforestation, pastures, orchards, meadow, and woods. Due to the relative flatness of the land gently sloping to the Sudbury River, broad expanses of land and water are within view much of the year. The soils of the Farm are reputed to be the richest in Middlesex County, with little evidence of bedrock. There is one dug farm pond and several other depressions, which are wet most of the year. The marshlands that border much of Heard Farm are one of finest migratory bird areas in New England.

Heard Farm is located on Pelham Island in west-central Wayland on the south side of Pelham Island Road. It is bounded on the east, south, and southwest by the floodplain of the Sudbury River and part of the Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge; on the west by the marshland of Heard's Pond, a Great Pond of Massachusetts; on the north and northwest by private property.

The public entrance to Heard Farm is at the end of Heard Road, off Pelham Island Road. At the end of Heard Road is the public parking lot for this area.

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