On this great weather day, we venture to Cape Henlopen State Park. The first stop was along Gordon’s Pond Trail (North side) where we identified 36 species. There was a lot of activity in the trees bordering the parking lot including red-breasted nuthatch, yellow-billed cuckoo, red-eyed vireo, golden-crowned kinglet, and ruby-crowned kinglet. Some other birds we identified along the trail were yellow-bellied sapsucker, brown thrasher, hairy woodpecker, pine warbler, pied-billed grebe, double-crested cormorant, bald eagle, yellow-rumped warbler, blue jay, great egret, laughing gull, Savannah sparrow, and black-bellied plover. We finished at the Fishing Pier where we identified 12 species including osprey, brown pelican, bald eagle, royal tern, herring gull, Forster’s tern, and great blue heron.
MY PHOTOS: yellow-bellied sapsucker, pied-billed grebe, double-crested cormorant, hairy woodpecker, pine warbler, red-breasted nuthatch, royal tern, brown thrasher
