A collection of my bird and nature photos
Category: <span>Gordon’s Pond</span>

Category: Gordon’s Pond

Birding at Cape Henlopen State Park: Featuring a Green Heron (8/8/25)

We birded along the north side of Gordon’s Pond Trail from the parking lot to just beyond Bench 5. Birds we identified included American goldfinch, blue grosbeak, osprey, Carolina chickadee, green heron, snowy egret, greater yellowlegs, clapper rail, downy woodpecker, short-billed dowitcher, tree swallow, royal …

Birding at Cape Henlopen State Park: Featuring a Green Heron (7/30/25)

We birded along the south end of Gordon’s Pond Trail from the parking lot to the observation deck. Some of the birds we identified were red-winged blackbird, snowy egret, great egret, green heron, black-necked stilt, short-billed dowitcher, indigo bunting, semipalmated plover, laughing gull, common yellowthroat, …

Birding at Cape Henlopen State Park: Featuring a Golden-Crowned Kinglet (10/25/24)

We went to the southern end of Gordon’s Pond Trail and walked from the parking lot to just beyond the one-mile marker. Birds we identified along this trail included yellow-rumped warbler, great blue heron, golden-crowned kinglet, ruby-crowned kinglet, white ibis (a few imms.), black-bellied plover, …

Birding at Cape Henlopen State Park: Featuring a Yellow-Rumped Warbler (3/14/24)

We covered two areas of the park. First, we took the north part of Gordon’s Pond trail from the parking lot to Bench 5. Birds we saw along this trail included northern cardinal, dark-eyed junco, pine warbler, eastern bluebird, yellow-rumped warbler, osprey, killdeer, great blue …