FOSTER NATURE AREA (aka Foster Savanna, Foster Point) ===================================================== This is the area that has been called Foster Savanna on this list. Bruce Date sent: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 13:49:11 -0500 From: ddarm@umich.edu To: birders@umich.edu Subject: [birders] Directions to Foster Nature area. Send reply to: ddarm@umich.edu > > > Sorry, I forgot to include specific directions to Foster Nature Area, > which is a good spot to check for ducks, and allows for better upriver > views than the "beach" at Barton Pond. Also gets you out of the wind > sometimes! > > It is just upriver from Barton Pond in Ann Arbor, on Huron River Drive. > For specific directions to the Barton Pond Nature areas, see > > http://www.umich.edu/~bbowman/birds/se_mich/locations/index.html > > As you drive away from Ann Arbor on Huron River Drive (northwest), > you'll see a parking pull off on the right at the upriver part of the > pond, northwest of where Salisbury intersects with Huron River Drive. A > well used trail crosses over the RR tracks, and then heads into the > nature area which runs along the south side of the river, almost up to > Foster bridge. You may want to bring a scope for better looks. > > Dea > > > On Nov 29, 2005, at 11:15 AM, ddarm@umich.edu wrote: > > > >> This morning I walked into Foster Nature Area to have a closer look > >> at the ducks swimming upstream from Barton Pond when I flushed 2 > >> Bald Eagles (both mature adults but one with a few brown marks on > >> its tail). Both birds were roosting in trees in the Foster Nature > >> Area but then headed up river towards the Foster Bridge once I > >> flushed them. Keep an eye open for these 2. Ducks were Common > >> Goldeneyes and Mallards. Dea > >> > >> **************************************************** > >> Deaver D. Armstrong > >> City Ornithologist > >> Natural Area Preservation Division City of Ann Arbor Department Park > >> Operations 1831 Traver Road Ann Arbor, MI 48105 734-996-3266 > >> ****************************************************