We ventured out to Delaware Seashore State Park on the cloudy and windy afternoon. First, we stopped at the Indian River Inlet. Although the tide was still fairly high, we identified several birds including long-tailed ducks, a killdeer, buffleheads, sanderlings, great and double-crested cormorants, and two ruddy turnstones. Next, we went to the Indian River Marina and birded the area where the inlet joins the marina. Some of the birds we saw included a red-breasted merganser, great black-backed gull, buffleheads, and a horned grebe. When we stopped in the parking lot at Burton Island, we saw that the immediate path across the walking path was flooded so we had to stay in the parking lot area. From the kayak launch, we saw two horned grebes, herring and ring-billed gulls, a great blue heron, and some buffleheads among other birds. We saw two mergansers but because of poor light and the wind shaking our scope, we couldn’t identify them for certain.
MY PHOTOS: long-tailed duck, common eider, jetty, long-tailed duck, long-tailed ducks, sanderlings
