This cache is not at the posted coordinates!
Congrats to Outkast24 for grabbing the FTF less than 3 hrs after the lab and cache were published!
Welcome to the Garrett Family Preserve
With its expansive native wildflower meadows, successional fields and taller tree lines, the preserve is a haven for migrating songbirds, raptors, and pollinators like bumblebees and monarch butterflies. The saltwater tidal marsh is a nursery for many fish species, a place where shorebirds can forage and fiddler crabs make their homes.
Find the cache and then search for the other caches located here while you enjoy the scenic trails, over four miles in all. The Nature Conservancy has added a picnic pavilion, bird blind and artists’ easels.
- Check out the tall trees at the fields’ edges--they provide hunting perches for raptors like the Red-Tailed Hawk, Cooper's Hawk and Great Horned Owl.
- The Yellow-Rumped Warbler and Eastern Meadowlark are just two of the species that make use of the native, berry-producing trees and shrubs, like black cherry, hackberry and flowering dogwood.
- Bird species such as the American Woodcock and American Goldfinch use the preserve's fields and meadow habitat for feeding, camouflage, singing and nesting.
- The salt marsh habitat attracts wading birds and raptors such as Osprey and Northern Harriers that need a steady diet of fish and other aquatic invertebrates.
This is a bonus cache for completing the Adventure Lab "For the Birds".
Each stop of the adventure lab will give you a piece of the final puzzle.
You must do all 5 stops of the adventure lab to get the final coordinates:
N38 57.ABC W074 55.DE