Watson Park Bird Preserve

Near the northeast end of Watson Road, before it intersects with East 38th Street, is the Watson Park Bird Preserve. The four-acre site was part of the original plat of Watson Park Road before homes were ever built on the street. It was one of the two “green spaces” at either end of the original Watson Park plan. The green space on the northeast end of Watson Road has for many years been a preserve for the nesting of wild birds. The green space that was originally at the southwest end of Watson Road now has a home on it, which you saw at the beginning of the tour. Neither green space was ever a cultivated park. In earlier times, these small tracts of land were used by the children in the neighborhood for such activities as sledding in the winter and riding bikes in the summer. Both locations were known by the nickname of “Camel’s Hump,” due to the hilly terrain on each green space.