Early mornings and evenings are best. You can bird from Providence Line but walking along the edge of the ballast along railway tracks (technically no trespassing here, but train traffic is both minimal and sporadic along this line) provides greater access to the wetland. There is room for one or two vehicles to park on the wide road shoulder at the cement culvert just south of the railway crossing.

Most species of marsh birds have been recorded here with the most regularly encountered being American Bittern, Northern Harrier, Wilson’s Snipe, Virginia Rail, Sora, Marsh Wren, and both Alder and Willow flycatchers. Common Gallinule and Least Bittern are also present some years. 

This is a moderately-sized (15 ha) wetland extending nearly 400 m east of Providence Line on both sides of the railway. It is for the most part cattail-dominated with good interspersion and with a fringe of willow-alder-dogwood thicket swamp and some graminoid meadow-marsh to the north.