Baxter’s Pond Foundation’s Late Fall Cleanup & Guided Nature Walks
This Saturday includes three events spending from 10 AM to 12:30 PM: First, a cleanup of Baxter’s Pond from 10 AM to 11 AM, second, a Guided Nature Walk across Baxter’s Pond Preserve from 11 AM to 11:25 AM, and third, a Manhasset Bay Guided Nature Tour from 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM. (This walk requires registration, see here to register). Here is a brief description of each event:
Baxter Pond Cleanup at 10 AM.
The Baxter’s Pond foundation is hosting a community cleanup event to remove garbage and maintaining the preserves natural beauty. This event will take place on Saturday, November 11 at 10 AM to 11 AM!
Baxter Pond’s Guided Nature Walk: 11:00 a.m. to 11:25 AM.
At 11 AM, immediately after this cleanup event, David Jakim will be hosting 25 minute walk across Baxter Pond and alongside Baxter Pond stream through a forested path of majestic trees, fascinating wildflowers, and diverse flora and fungi. The pond is alive with diverse wildflowers along its banks and animals including frogs, fish, turtles, and dragonflies. Furthermore, this water body provides a vital sanctuary for diverse waterfowl. We might even spot fish and frog-eating birds like the reclusive great blue herons (Ardea herodias), black crowned night heron (Nycticorax nycticorax), green heron (Butorides virescens), great egret (Ardea alba), and snowy egret (Egretta thula).
After our pond exploration, we will walk alongside Baxter Pond Creek, which is nourished by springs and streams from as far as Beacon Hill and Main Street. This creek, rich with a woodland canopy of tulip trees (Liriodendron tulipifera) and white oak trees (Quercus alba) up to 5 feet in diameter, also supports the sole habitat for two-lined salamanders (Eurycea bislineata) in Port Washington.
As we traverse the woods, we'll encounter both edible and medicinal plants. The walk will end returning to the entrance to Baxter Pond.
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his is a free walk and there is no need to register. More information about this walk below!
Manhasset Bay Walk Guided Nature Tour: 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM
This tour will commence at 11:30 AM and will start at Baxter Pond, explore Mill Pond, the Manhasset Bay Walk, Manhasset Bay walk Park, and the Manhasset Bay Beach Habitat alongside Shore Road. The event will return back to the Baxter Pond entrance at 12:30 PM. Information about this event and to register can be found here: Manhasset Bay Walk Guided Nature Walk Event.
Meeting and ending locations: All the events will start and end at the entrance to Baxter Pond. Parking is available across the street at Port Washington Parking District Lot 6. See map here for meeting location.