Since the winter of 1994, bald eagle has regularly foraged these reaches during the winter months and established favoured perch sites in a crack willow grove and in large hackberry and oaks along the remnant field edges of the shoreline of the rare Charitable Research Reserve.
The vision for the confluence is to maintain the scenic vista of this Canadian Heritage River as a natural landscape in the heart of the Grand River watershed within the urban setting of Waterloo Region. Reaches above and below the confluence will continue to be the premier wintering habitat for waterfowl and bald eagles in Waterloo Region.