Birding at My Neighborhood Pond: Featuring a Hooded Merganser (1/19/21)
This male hooded merganser occasionally visits our neighborhood pond. I caught him in good light this morning. MY PHOTO: hooded merganser
Birding at Prime Hook NWR Fowler Beach: Featuring a Short-Eared Owl (1/12/21)
We went on a birding field trip with the Sussex Bird Club. There were 23 of us and we split up into three groups. We went to Fowler Beach which is part of Prime Hook NWR. Everyone was required to wear a mask and there …
Birding at Cape Henlopen State Park: Featuring a Carolina Chickadee (1/11/21)
The morning started out a cold 26° but it was sunny and there was no wind. We birded in two areas. First, we walked around the Seaside Nature Trail. The highlight was seeing a very rare Townsend’s Solitaire (rare in the eastern U.S.). It had …
Birding at Silver Lake: Featuring Canvasbacks (1/8/21)
After leaving the Indian River Inlet, we drove up Route 1 a bit and went to Silver Lake in Rehoboth Beach. We parked in the one small parking lot before the small bridge over the lake. We birded the edge of the lake from there, …
Birding at Delaware Seashore State Park: Featuring a Long-Tailed Duck (1/8/21)
On a cloudy, 34° morning, we went to the Indian River Inlet. We saw many buffleheads, common eiders, long-tailed ducks, and sanderlings. Ring-billed and great black-backed gulls were also seen. Given the overcast, it was hard to get a lot of good photos but I …
Birding at Prime Hook NWR: Featuring a Purple Finch (1/7/21)
On a cold but sunny day, we went to Prime Hook NWR and birded in the area around the Visitor’s Center and along Dike Trail. There was a lot of activity in the feeder area behind the Visitor’s Center where we saw American goldfinches, house …
Birding at Cape Henlopen State Park: Featuring Snow Buntings (12/30/20)
We walked the two-mile loop around “The Point” at Cape Henlopen State Park. The tide was low which was a good time to go here. The full loop is only open from about October to the end of February due to the nesting of endangered …
Birding at Trap Pond State Park: Featuring a Great Blue Heron (12/18/20)
It was a cold afternoon today—only in the mid-30’s—but at least it was mostly sunny and dry. There were at least 100 Canada geese resting along the shore close to the main parking lot area. In the pond we also saw a great blue heron, …
Birding at Cape Henlopen State Park: Featuring Surf Scoters (12/13/20)
It was an unusually mild mid-December day at Cape Henlopen State Park where it warmed up into the mid-60’s by late morning. We first birded the beach area at Herring Point. There were many surf scoters, gulls, and red-throated loons in the water. A few …
Birding at Delaware Seashore State Park: Featuring a Long-Tailed Duck (12/10/20)
We finally had a sunny morning although it started out as a chilly 39 degrees. We went to Delaware Seashore State Park, both the Indian River South Inlet and Burton Island. At the inlet and beach, we saw lots of birds on the water including …