We went on an open-to-the-public Saturday morning bird walk led by members of the Sussex Bird Club. We covered three areas of the refuge. Starting in the parking lot, we noticed that the purple martins had returned and were occupying their apartments. Other birds seen …
We went on a field trip with the Sussex County Bird Club. Most of the trip was spent along the south side of the Gordon’s Pond Trail. Water levels in the pond were very low. Some of the birds we identified were pine warbler, snowy …
I went on a two-part field trip with the Sussex Bird Club. The day started at Assawoman Wildlife Area. The few birds we identified from the gravel parking lot were pine warbler, American crow, Carolina wren, and northern cardinal. We spent the most time by …
This was the second of a two-part field trip I attended with the Sussex Bird Club. We went to the south jetty at the Indian River Inlet. Two female harlequin ducks were seen by the rocks at the end of the jetty near the tower. …
We covered five areas of the refuge today. We saw the most bird species (20) in Raymond Pool which was our first area. American avocets, green-winged teal, and northern shovelers were the most abundant birds we saw in this area. Other birds included tree swallow, …
We started at Fleetwood Pond. Although the water level was back to normal, there were no birds in that area. Next, we went to Dike Trail. Some of the birds we saw there were Canada goose, black-bellied plover, dunlin, northern harrier, ring-billed gull, American herring …
We went to two areas of the park starting at the Indian River Inlet. It was low tide and there were over 200 scoters by the jetty. Most of them were black scoters, but there were surf scoters mixed in as well. Other birds seen …
We birded today with other members of the Sussex Bird Club. We started from the parking lot, walked to the beach, then went back to the parking lot. We hoped to see short-eared owls but there weren’t any. Some of the birds we saw were …
The trails were still covered in snow in many places although the beach areas were mostly cleared. We birded in two areas of the park starting from the beach below The Point parking lot. The tide was low and we saw many brants and gulls …
In the water to the south of the parking lot, we saw tundra swan, American black duck, and bufflehead. We walked to the beach next and, unfortunately, we saw about a dozen dead snow geese along the beach. We learned that there is a contagious …
