Child's Play At Rolling Park Traditional Geocache
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Child's Play At Rolling Park
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This is the park that I grew up in. Watching the tides come and go, and the effects of heavy rains and flash flooding, this creek area has changed over time. But it has also stayed the same in many ways! Its a great place to jump rocks and catch minnows. The kids can play and the pups can jump in and get wet. This is an under utilized and virually unknown park, yet is a wonderful natural resource for wildlife and the place where Perkins Run joins the Delaware River.
Perkins Run Tract is the South Branch of Naamans Creek Natural Area, which is the largest forest tract left in the watershed.
Perkins Run is a forested stream and part of a larger system of forested lands within the Arden community. The total forest parcel comprises 37.8 acres of habitat, of which 29 acres is identified as a state designated Natural Area. The Arden-owned "Sherwood Forest" in the state designated Natural Area accounts for roughly 20 acres. Approximately six acres are "protected" as Buckingham Green open space, leaving the remaining three acres of the Natural Area located on the Avery Property unprotected.
The Perkins Run Tract of the South Branch of Naaman's Creek Natural Area contains mature trees such as beech, oak and maple. Bird species — such as the Tufted Titmouse, Wood Thrush, Scarlet Tanager, Baltimore Oriole, Veery, Ovenbird, and the Acadian Flycatcher — depend on such forests. The area also contains wetlands that provide important habitat for a variety of amphibians such as the Northern Dusky Salamander and the Northern Two-lined Salamander.
Northern New Castle County has a high level of existing development, a history of flooding problems, and extensive habitat fragmentation caused by past development practices. Maintaining forested streams and wetlands within this watershed is critical for flood control, the preservation of forest connections, and wildlife habitat.
TIDAL Creeks & Rivers – Striped bass, channel catfish and white perch are being caught in tidal rivers and creeks throughout the state, but anglers are reminded that the season on stripers will be closed in the designated spawning areas from April 1 through May 31.
Shorebirds around Delaware probably get most of their food from mud flats along the edges of the river and the larger guts (tidal creeks). These mudflats are much more extensive at low tide than at high.
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