When submitting eBird observations at Belle Isle Marsh Reservation, it is most helpful to start a new checklist for each hotspot in the area. Use the general hotspot when you have a checklist that includes multiple locations or if no other hotspot or personal location is appropriate for your sightings.

Snowy Egrets, Great Egrets, and Glossy Ibises feed in salt pans during the breeding season. Migrant shorebirds roost on the salt marsh (spring) or in salt pans (fall).

Boston’s last remaining salt marsh offers unique views of plants and wildlife as you follow paths to the observation tower.

Parking is available in the lot inside the entrance gate.

Belle Isle Marsh is one among several final remnants of salt marsh throughout the Boston Basin. It is located within the Boston city limits and is therefore somewhat unusual. This site contains a salt marsh, tidal creek, salt pans, a Common Reed stand, and upland parkland on the periphery of Boston Harbor.

This is an urban salt marsh with lively and representative flora and fauna. Used by school groups extensively.