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, …
We birded along four trails this morning. In less than two hours, we identified 32 species. Our first stop was in the Visitor’s Center area where we identified purple martin, brown-headed cowbird, chipping sparrow, mourning dove, and red-bellied woodpecker. Some of the birds identified along …
We birded this morning in two areas of Cape Henlopen State Park. Our first stop was the area near The Point on the bayside. It was low tide and many sandbars were exposed. We saw two American oystercatchers. One had orange bands with the symbols …
We went on a birding trip to Redden State Forest with the Sussex Bird Club. We covered the Headquarters Tract with them before leaving the group early. We saw two blue-gray gnatcatcher nests with gnatcatchers going in and out of them. One of the gnatcatchers …
Our first stop was at Fleetwood Pond and the boat launch area. Many birds were singing in this area including yellow-throated warbler, ovenbird, and red-bellied woodpecker. We saw a northern waterthrush walking and teetering along the water’s edge by the boat launch area. Next, we …
We birded in the north side of the park that included fields, woods, lake shore, dam, and historic area. A yellow-bellied sapsucker landed briefly in a tree by the parking lot. Birds on and by the lake included osprey, mute swan (4 or 5), Canada …
We birded in three areas of Cape Henlopen State Park. Our first stop was The Point area near the parking lot. Some of the birds we saw on the bay side included osprey, common merganser, great blue heron, and double-crested cormorant. On the ocean side, …
We went to two areas of the park. First, we started at Burton Island and saw three firsts of the season: osprey, great egret, and pine warbler. Other birds seen included bufflehead, red-breasted merganser, one greater scaup, black-crowned night-heron, tree swallow, boat-tailed grackle, house finch, …
We birded in several areas of the refuge today and identified 40 species. Birds we identified from the Visitor’s Center included killdeer, house finch, American robin, and a flock of snow geese. The Raymond Pool Trail and Observation Tower was very good. Among the 23 …
The second part of today’s trip was at Fowler Beach. We went there to hopefully find short-eared owls. One was reported there the day before on ebird but we didn’t see any. Nor did we see any northern harriers either. We stayed in the parking …
