This site is worth a stop and quick scan at just about any time, but particularly from late summer through fall and again in early spring. The pond immediately south of Baseline Rd. may be scanned with binoculars from the pull-off at the water standpipe on the south side of Base Line Rd. To scan the ponds to the southwest, where the use of a spotting scope is essential, a better vantage is from the shoulder of Bensfort Rd. just south of the intersection. Be extremely careful birding from Bensfort Rd. as the road shoulder is narrow and the traffic in both directions is usually fairly heavy and moves quickly. It is probably safer, therefore, to park your vehicle on Base Line Rd. and walk to a vantage on Bensfort Rd.

The main attraction at this location is waterfowl, particularly geese. Canada Geese often gather in large numbers in and around the livestock pond at the southwest corner of Base Line and Bensfort Rds. Snow and Cackling geese are occasionally found in these flocks and in October 2013 Peterborough County’s first record of Ross’s Goose was established here. Killdeer and Spotted Sandpiper occur regularly in the livestock pond, but when water levels are low in late summer in the marshy ponds to the southwest several shorebird species may be found including Solitary, Least, Pectoral and Semipalmated sandpipers and, rarely, Baird’s Sandpiper. In fall, winter and early spring gulls associated with the landfill to the south occasionally loaf on the frozen ponds and the flocks should be scanned for white-winged gulls and other less common species.

This site includes the series of ponds to the southwest of the intersection of Baseline Rd. and Bensfort Rd. The closest livestock pond is immediately south of Base Line Rd. and is surrounded by livestock pasture, but the series of marshy ponds are around 200 m to the southwest.