NH-Lubberland+Creek+Preserve


 * =Birding in New Hampshire=

Rockingham County
Newmarket =Lubberland Creek Preserve= Newmarket, New Hampshire 03857 Lubberland Creek Preserve webpage Lubberland Creek Preserve trail map

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Lubberland Creek Preserve, Newmarket
Coordinates: 43.0753238, -70.9059598 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

About Lubberland Creek Preserve
From NH-108 in Durham, turn east onto Durham Point Road and drive 6.3 miles. The preserve parking lot is on the right. From NH-108 in Newmarket, turn east onto Bay Road and drive 1.4 miles. The preserve parking lot is on the left.
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 * Target Birds**: Spring/summer birding. Warblers, vireos, and other passerines on the trails behind the parking lot. On the trail to the marshes at the shore of Great Bay there is an Osprey nest platform. Waterfowl and gulls on Great Bay, though a scope is needed.

This nearly 400-acre preserve features a unique salt marsh and a rich upland forest community, providing habitat for deer, wild turkey, and fish.

It is easy to leave behind the feel of civilization in the Lubberland Creek Preserve near Great Bay in Newmarket and Durham. The preserve’s trails explore a mix of streams, swampy wetlands, grasslands, and dry forested uplands pocked with vernal pools. Rare Blanding’s turtles and spotted salamanders use the vernal pools while the wetlands support beaver, osprey and great blue herons. The preserve also contains one of the largest salt marshes in the Great Bay Estuary providing visitors with great birding opportunities and expansive views of Great Bay.

Lubberland Creek and the adjoining Crommet Creek watershed comprise the largest remaining intact block of forest and freshwater wetlands (nearly 5,000 acres) adjoining Great Bay. These watersheds have several rare and exemplary natural communities including salt marshes, dry Appalachian Oak-hickory forests, and an extensive system of freshwater marshes and beaver ponds. The Conservancy’s North Atlantic Coast Ecoregional Plan lists the Crommet and Lubberland Creek conservation area as one of 18 core areas to protect in the Great Bay watershed. From Lubberland Creek Preserve webpage

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