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Brandywine Creek State Park
State Park
in
Atlantic Coastal Plain
near
Rockland
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DE
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Brandywine Creek State Park is a state park, located 3 miles (4.8 km) north of Wilmington, Delaware along the Brandywine Creek. Open year-round, it is 933 acres (378 ha) in area and much of the park was part of a Du Pont family estate and dairy farm before becoming a state park in 1965. It contains the first two nature preserves in Delaware. These nature preserves are Tulip Tree Woods and Freshwater Marsh. Flint Woods is a satellite area of the park and has become the park's third nature preserve. Flint Woods is home to species of rare song birds and an old-growth forest. The park's forests are part of the Northeastern coastal forests ecoregion. Fourteen miles of trails run the park, the longest being the Rocky Run Trail and the Greenways Trail. Brandywine Creek has a large population of…
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Trails
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Connector Trail
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Thompsons Bridge Trailhead
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Hawk Watch Picnic Pavilion
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Brandywine Creek Bird Watching Area
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Plants
Podophyllum peltatum
SPECIES ·
“Mayapple”
5
Observations
JAN - DEC
Virginia Bluebells
Mertensia virginica (species),
“Lungwort Oysterleaf”, “Virginia Bluebell”
4
Observations
JAN - DEC
Dogtooth Violet
Erythronium americanum (species)
3
Observations
JAN - DEC
Polystichum acrostichoides
SPECIES ·
“Christmas Fern”
3
Observations
JAN - DEC
Liriodendron tulipifera
SPECIES ·
“Tuliptree”, “Yellow Poplar”
3
Observations
JAN - DEC
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Eastern Newt
Notophthalmus viridescens (species)
1
Observation
JAN - DEC
Pickerel Frog
Lithobates palustris (species)
1
Observation
JAN - DEC
Pantherophis alleghaniensis
SPECIES
1
Observation
JAN - DEC
Virginia Opossum
Didelphis virginiana (species),
“Virginian Opossum”
1
Observation
JAN - DEC
Birds
Northern Cardinal
Cardinalis cardinalis (species),
“Common Cardinal”
1,249
Observations
JAN - DEC
American Robin
Turdus migratorius (species)
1,231
Observations
JAN - DEC
Carolina Chickadee
Poecile carolinensis (species)
1,229
Observations
JAN - DEC
Blue Jay
Cyanocitta cristata (species)
1,225
Observations
JAN - DEC
Tufted Titmouse
Baeolophus bicolor (species),
“Parus Bicolor”
1,223
Observations
JAN - DEC
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Insects
Toxomerus geminatus
SPECIES
2
Observations
JAN - DEC
Boxelder Bug
Boisea trivittata (species),
“Eastern Boxelder Bug”
1
Observation
JAN - DEC
Metcalfa pruinosa
SPECIES ·
“Citrus Flatid Planthopper”
1
Observation
JAN - DEC
Brown Marmorated Stink Bug
Halyomorpha halys (species)
1
Observation
JAN - DEC
Monarch Butterfly
Danaus plexippus (species),
“Monarch”, “Milkweed”, “Common Tiger”, “Wanderer”, “Black Veined Brown”, “Common Tiger Wanderer”
1
Observation
JAN - DEC
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Region
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Protected Area
33
State Park
1
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