Category: <span>Burton Island</span>

Category: Burton Island

Birding at Delaware Seashore State Park: Featuring a Northern Harrier (10/11/24)

We started birding from the parking lot, continued over the causeway, and looped around the island trail. Some of the birds we identified included white ibis (flock of 2), northern harrier, northern flicker, yellow-rumped warbler (many), osprey (6 were in three adjacent tees), gray catbird, …

Birding at Delaware Seashore State Park: Featuring a Double-Crested Cormorant (12/16/23)

We went on a birdwalk with the Sussex Bird Club. We stopped at two places, the first of which was the south side of the Indian River Inlet. Some of the birds we saw there included common loon, herring gull, Bonaparte’s gull, boat-tailed grackle, Forster’s …

Birding at Delaware Seashore State Park: Featuring a Bufflehead (3/21/22)

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, …