Bird Park comes across as an oasis in the middle of busy Boston suburbia with 89 acres of beautiful rolling parkland. Walking the well-maintained paved and dirt paths brings you by open fields, grassy meadows, ponds and stone bridges. A playground and basketball courts and seasonal events like an ice cream social, movie nights and concerts helps make Bird Park an idyllic community gathering place. It's also ideal for cross country skiing in the winter. The Trustees of Reservations -- a nonprofit conservation organization that preserves land, nature, and historic places in Massachusetts -- is to be commended for maintaining and improving the land so well, and for bringing this once-declining park back into its innately picturesque glory. File this one under "Best of New England Town Parks!"