Our short, two-hour visit to the refuge nonetheless enabled us to accumulate 44 species. By the Visitor’s Center, a male ruby-throated hummingbird was sipping the trumpet honeysuckle flowers next to the Friends of Prime Hook house. Other birds identified in this area included purple martin, killdeer, chipping sparrow, and northern mockingbird. We identified 39 species along the Dike Trail. At the end of this trail in a tree was a nesting pair of ospreys. Some other birds we identified along this trail were orchard oriole, common yellowthroat, red-winged blackbird, chipping sparrow, yellow warbler, barn swallow, indigo bunting, blue-gray gnatcatcher, house wren, dunlin, semipalmated plover, three short-billed dowitchers, Forster’s tern, greater and lesser yellowlegs, common yellowthroat, blue jay, red-bellied woodpecker, tree swallow, snowy egret, great egret, and Canada goose.
MY PHOTOS: ruby-throated hummingbird, barn swallow, yellow warbler, osprey, orchard oriole, chipping sparrow, red-winged blackbird
