We went birding this afternoon at Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) in Cambridge, MD. It was our first time there. This is a great place for birding and photography. There is a lot of water and open spaces to see waterfowl and bald eagles. We …
This morning started out with a little fog but that cleared out by around 10:00 AM. We covered four areas of the refuge. The Raymond Pool observation tower gave us great views of the pool including Canada geese, American avocets, northern pintails, green-winged teal, northern …
We birded in two areas of the park. First we walked along Gordon’s Pond Trail (north side) and saw a merlin, yellow-rumped warbler, palm warbler, bufflehead, and an adult bald eagle. At Herring Point, we saw ring-billed, lesser black-backed, and great black-backed gulls. In the …
It was a mostly cloudy day at Prime Hook NWR. The light wasn’t very good or taking photos but I was able to take a few pictures at least. We birded the Visitor’s Center, Dike Trail, and Boardwalk Trail and identified 30 species. The best …
I identified 32 species of birds in these five areas—Visitor’s Center, Raymond Pool, Shearness Pool and Marsh, Bear Swamp Pool, and Boardwalk Trail. In the Raymond and Shearness pools were short-billed dowitchers, northern pintails, northern shovelers, American wigeons, black-bellied plovers, dunlins, and pied-billed grebes, among …
We birded in these areas: Life of the Marsh Trail, Bayside Point, Life of the Forest Trail, Life of the Dunes Trail, and South Beach. There wasn’t much to see on Life of the Dunes Trail except for a bald eagle perched on a dead …
Today’s trip was a loop around Burton Island. We saw at least two and as many as four different adult bald eagles. Other birds identified included great egrets, red-breasted nuthatches, ospreys, yellow-rumped warblers, a merlin, and a northern harrier. As a sign of the upcoming …
We got a couple of nice views of a great blue heron on the pond. What was especially nice was that an eastern wood-peewee was sitting on a twig, enabling me to take a couple of pictures of it. In my experience, the wood-peewees are …
This was Part 1 of our two birding trips today. We walked the two-mile loop around “The Point” at Cape Henlopen State Park. Three type of terns were spotted on our walk—Caspian, royal, and Forster’s. Many double-crested cormorants were seen, We also saw great blue …
This was Part 2 of our two birding trips today which took us to Prime Hook NWR. We covered the Visitor’s Center area, Dike Trail, and Boardwalk Trail. We saw a peregrine falcon soaring over us along the Dike Trail. Other birds seen along this …
