Eagle Watch LbNA #: 4875
| Placed by: Barry (Contact the Placer) | |
| Placement date: Mar 23 2009 | |
| State: Connecticut | |
| County: Middlesex | | | Nearest city: East Haddam |
| Number of boxes: 1 |
CluesEagle Watch Letterbox at
Brainard Homestead State Park
Creek Row, East Haddam,CT
Easy short walk - also very close by is Frodo's Happy Place Letterbox which you should find first and GAQLBE09:Michigan Eagle letterbox.
**3/23/09** This letterbox has been placed at its new location after being moved from the Harlo Haagansen Preserve per directive of the CT Audubon Org. According to them, that spot is only open to members and their guests. It is only about 1/2 mile from the old spot.
This 25-acre upland site includes fields, woods, and a minor sometimes stream. It is in the area of the earliest settlement to East Haddam in about 1670. It was donated to the state in 1929 by Selden Tyler Brainard, one of the original first families. It overlooks the Connecticut River just above the town of East Haddam. Migrating bald eagles congregate and winter along the Connecticut River and feed primarily on fish. Eagles remain in Connecticut as long as the food supply is abundant and the water remains free of ice, generally December through mid-March. Eagles are often observed perched in large trees or gliding in the wind currents that flow near the highlands and over the bridge and along the river. You can also find deer, turkeys, coyotes, and other wildlife native to New England. If you come when there are no leaves on the trees you will get a great view of the Connecticut and Salmon Rivers.If you happen to explore here during the first couple of
weeks in August, you will find an overabundence of delicious raspberries that you can munch on while you explore the park.
After finding the Frodo's Happy Place letterbox, go back to the road and follow it back to the first opening to the field. Most of the year there is a very wet area between the fields that I wouldn't advise trying to go through, so the roadway is safer. After passing through the gateway, proceed due west. At the edge of the field, look for a trail opening near the fallen tree. Walk under the tree and turn left. Near the end of the stone wall, at the base of a very patchy barked tree you will find the box under the rocks.
There are many other letterboxes nearby in East Haddam . Take time to see the Goodspeed Opera House (maybe have a drink at the Gelston House next door), Gillette's Castle, The Hadlyme/Chester Ferry below the castle, or some of the beautiful old houses and churches in town.
Have fun in our hometown. Barry
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