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This highly visible and busy urbanizing location is part of an extensive wetland and drainage system on the western side of Batavia and Geneva. Braeburn is a high quality, restored wetland complex, about half open, shallow water and the other half a tapering mix of mudflat, rushes, reeds, low hummocks, scrub shrubs, willows and cottonwoods.
The marsh is teeming, in season, with ducks, geese, waters and shorebirds. It is a stopover for many rare migrans and a nesting site for Sand Hill Cranes. A number of riparian homeowners have become active birds, very interested in and protective of this fascinating habitat.
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