Our second day in a row at the refuge took us in most of the same places as yesterday. We started in Tom’s Cove today and saw the same group of American oystercatchers we saw yesterday. We also saw an immature little blue heron, royal …
We covered a lot of ground on the refuge today. Birds along Beach Road included cattle egrets on the ponies, little blue heron, tricolored heron, belted kingfisher, and white ibis. In the Little Tom’s Cove and Swan Cove areas, some of the birds we saw …
Our first stop was along the bay shore below The Point parking lot. The tide was high so there weren’t that many birds along the beach. Several brown pelicans were seen flying low over the water towards The Point. Nearby, we also identified turkey vulture, …
We walked along the west side of Chambers Lake from the boat ramp parking lot, along the side of the road, and to the northwest part of the lake using the grassy trail by the woods. The weather was better than the birding. Several flocks …
There were four areas of the refuge that we birded. We identified just four birds near the Visitor’s Center: Carolina wren, mourning dove, cedar waxwing, and European starling. Along the Dike Trail, we identified 29 species. The highlight was a peregrine falcon perched on top …
I covered three areas of the park this morning. First, I went to The Point. The tide was relatively low and was still going out. I saw two American oystercatchers on the sandbars. One was banded—it had the letters “M” and “P” on both leg …
The highlight of the day was watching four roseate spoonbills in Shearness Pool. They were just to the right of the pullover parking lot and perhaps 50 yards into the pool. Other birds seen in this pool included mute swan (2), wood duck, palm warbler, …
Our second stop today was at Prime Hook NWR. Some of the birds we identified from the Visitor’s Center included purple martin, chipping sparrow, laughing gull, and field sparrow. We walked along the Dike Trail next and saw four types of terns: Forster’s, least, common, …
Our first stop today was the DuPont Nature Center. Most birds we saw were from the raised platform along the side of the center. Some of the birds we saw included ruddy turnstone, osprey, barn swallow, song sparrow, American oystercatcher, least tern, spotted sandpiper, and …
We stopped at three areas of the park. Our first stop was Savage’s Ditch Road and we took the trail from the parking lot to the bay. This was our first visit here. We saw several brown pelicans flying by. One back-crowned night heron also …
