After James Farm Ecological Preserve, we drove up to Quillen’s Point and birded from the area around the parking lot out towards Indian River Bay. We identified 12 birds in the short time we were there: bald eagle, bufflehead, common loon, Forster’s tern, peregrine falcon, …
Our first stop was at the Indian River Inlet. The tide was low and the jetties were exposed as much as possible. Birds we saw on the jetties included sanderling, purple sandpiper, ruddy turnstone, herring gull, and ring-billed gull. Great cormorants were resting on the …
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 …
Our first stop was at the Indian River Inlet. The tide was about halfway between low and high and was coming in. We saw a flock of about 20 Bonaparte’s gulls in the inlet on the west side of the bridge. Other birds seen in …
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, …
We went to two areas of the park this morning. The first area was the south side of Indian River Inlet including the beach. The wind was unusually calm for this area. Some of the birds we saw were dunlin, northern gannet, ruddy turnstone, long-tailed …
A field trip with the Sussex Bird Club took us to Delaware Seashore State Park. We birded the Indian River Inlet and beach first. Many northern gannets were scene and were relatively closer to the shore than normal. There were a few female long-tailed ducks …
I went on a trip today with the Sussex Bird Club to Delaware Seashore State Park. The first area was the Indian River Inlet. It was windy and the water was very choppy. Some of the birds we saw were royal tern, sanderling, herring gull, …
Our first stop was at the Indian River Inlet. There wasn’t much variety today but we saw several Forster’s terns, laughing gulls, barn swallows, and brown pelicans. We left the inlet and crossed the bridge to get to Burton Island. Right away, there was a …
We ventured out to Delaware Seashore State Park on the cloudy and windy afternoon. First, we stopped at the Indian River Inlet. Although the tide was still fairly high, we identified several birds including long-tailed ducks, a killdeer, buffleheads, sanderlings, great and double-crested cormorants, and …
