Stone Harbor Bird Sanctuary

 
 
In 2008 visitor’s were invited into the Sanctuary through Heron Overlook and Meadow View, the first time in the Sanctuary’s history. After three years of discovery and planning with our consultants, Duffield Associates the first two trails were installed, along with 9 gardens. In 2009 the most spectacular trail, Holly Path opens. Once you step on to Holly Path you feel as if you leave Stone Harbor and travel back in time to when the Lenni - Lenape Indians were fishing along the shore. Then there were high wind swept dunes with groves of cedar, holly and sassafras trees. Visitors walk through ancient sand dunes, perched on top of the highest dune is an American Holly tree that was no doubt a seedling when King Nummy ( the last great king of the Lenni - Lenape) was still clamming on Nummy’s Island! In 2011 the last path Egret Espy was opened, it skirts the edge of the maritime forest and the meadow. It's simply amazing.
quote: Happier of happy though I be, like them I cannot take possession of the sky, mount with a thoughtless impulse, and wheel there, one of a mighty multitude whose way and motion is a harmony and dance magnificent. William Wordsworth http://www.great-quotes.com/cgi-bin/viewquotes.cgi?action=search&Author_First_Name=William&Author_Last_Name=Wordsworth&Movie=shapeimage_2_link_0
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