- A nature trail for pleasure walkers, joggers, hikers & bird-watchers. Accessible for baby strollers, motorized scooters and wheelchairs. The trail is a photographer's paradise, from the Mill Pond through to the woodlands and the West Perth Wetlands.
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Photos and captions courtesy of Dave Brown, Mitchell
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| PHOTO 1: This is our entrance garden with metal sculptures. There will also be a large sign that will go at this location. | PHOTO 2: One of the berms with cut paths that surround the ponds. These berms are 4 to 6 feet high in most places making for good viewing. |
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| PHOTO 3: A large island in one of the ponds, along with other shallow areas that are being used by the shorebirds (in this case Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs and a Pectoral Sandpiper). | PHOTO 4: Wider shot of the same pond with multiple small islands. The islands are great because they increase the amount of "shoreline" within a given pond, and provide a "safe zone" for the birds. |
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| PHOTO 5: Grassy slope with wildflowers...great area for grassland species such as Bobolink..or even Dickcissel which we had this past week. You can see an original concrete control outlet in the distance. | PHOTO 6: Same grassy area with large boulders (good to sit on) and a view of the largest cell which is typically deeper water and good for waterfowl. This is the cell that has been recently drained to allow for work to sculpt the bottom as part of the project to create sustainable wetland habitat. The project will also include a system for moving water between ponds, thereby allowing the creation of shorebird habitat each season. |
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| PHOTO 7: This is the best pond right now for shorebird habitat with shallow water surrounded by lots of mudflats. This area has just developed naturally (after the initial work years ago to build the nearby sewage treatment plant and overflow ponds) and has been excellent this season due to the lack of rain in the Mitchell area. | PHOTO 8: This portion of one of the ponds has a rocky mudflat, great for many shorebirds and especially Ruddy Turnstones and Red Knots. There are a couple of other small islands that are very rocky as well in this same pond. |
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