Residents gather outside at Curtis Woodlands before the Durham Conservation Commission meeting on July 14 to comment on town’s early mowing of a field at White Farm. However, for birders like Annyta Vizard, who spent years organizing bird walks at White Farm, the property means more than just agriculture. Birders gathered at Frederick White Farm in Durham to observe bobolinks during the Connecticut Bobolink and Wildlife Festival last July. Grass grows on a field recently mowed by the city of Durham at Frederick White Farm. Kohan added that there was no opposition from residents because the field is not as heavily used for recreation as White Farm.