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 …
I went on a field trip with the Sussex Bird Club this morning. Our first stop was at the Indian River Inlet. There were many long-tailed ducks in the inlet. Some great cormorants were on the tower at the end of the jetty. Other birds …
Our first stop was along the north side of Gordon’s Pond Trail. We walked from the parking lot to just past Bench 5. Two Wilson’s snipes flew over the trail and there were several cedar waxwings in a couple of pine trees. Waterfowl included American …
We saw nine canvasbacks sleeping in the corner of Silver Lake by the bridge. Two bald eagles were seen flying. Several hooded mergansers were seen and there was a large group of Canada geese. Other birds seen included double-crested cormorant, pied-billed grebe, ring-billed gull, American …
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 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 …
The area by the Visitor’s Center was quiet as we only saw turkey vulture, northern mockingbird, and white throated sparrow. Dike Trail was a little more active. Birds we identified along the trail included great blue heron, ringed bill gull, bald eagle, red-breasted merganser, northern …
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 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 …
We hoped to see some canvasbacks on Silver Lake but, although some were reported recently, we didn’t see any. Most of the birds swimming on the lake were Canada geese, double-crested cormorants, ring-billed gulls, red-breasted mergansers, and mallards. Other birds identified were bald eagle (imm.), …
