We saw two snow geese and four buffleheads in the water very close to the parking lot. More distant birds included tundra swan and American black duck. Along the path to the beach, we saw great blue heron, bald eagle, and northern harrier. We saw …
We first walked the trail to the beach. There were at least 5,000 snow geese on the water and probably more. Some of them came ashore. One ring-billed gull was eating a fish by the shoreline. Back in the parking lot area, we saw several …
We went to Fowler Beach to hopefully see a short-eared owl or two late in the afternoon but they were no-shows. Some birds we identified along the beach were sanderling, dunlin, bald eagle, ring-billed gull, surf scoter, bufflehead, common loon, red-winged blackbird (flock), snow bunting …
I went on a field trip with the Sussex Bird Club to Fowler Beach. We found a few short-eared owls mixed in with some northern harriers over the marsh in the late afternoon. In the bay were some surf scoters and buffleheads. Further south along …
We walked from the parking lot to the beach and back. There was a raft of snow geese in the bay. Later, these and other snow geese flew in large flocks heading inland around 4:30PM. Earlier, we saw a flock of 8 tundra swans flying …
We birded from the parking lot to the beach and back. We hoped to find a short-eared owl at the end of the afternoon but we didn’t see one. Along the beach closer to the dunes, the highlight was several snow buntings and horned larks …
I went on an afternoon birdwalk with the Sussex Bird Club to Fowler Beach. In the area around the parking lot, we saw flocks of snow geese overhead, an immature bald eagle, American black duck, ruddy duck, and tundra swan. We walked to the beach …
We went on a field trip with the Sussex Bird Club. Our walk started from the parking lot and we went to the beach and back. We hoped to find short-eared owls from the parking lot at the end of the day but we didn’t …
The second part of today’s trip was at Fowler Beach. We went there to hopefully find short-eared owls. One was reported there the day before on ebird but we didn’t see any. Nor did we see any northern harriers either. We stayed in the parking …
Our second trip this afternoon took us north a little bit to Fowler Beach. Before we got there, we saw several thousand snow geese in a field near Fowler Beach on Prime Hook Road just before Cods Road. We drove to the parking lot at …
