My first of four stops was in the area around the Visitor’s Center. Some of the birds I identified there was Carolina wren, northern mockingbird, dark-eyed junco, and white-throated sparrow. Birds I saw along the Dike Trail included song sparrow, American goldfinch, northern flicker, Carolina …
The first of our four stops was along Foord’s Landing Road. We found the eastern screech-owl in the same tree we saw it last winter. We went to the Visitor’s Center area next and some of the birds we identified there were cedar waxwing, American …
We birded in three areas of the refuge today. Some of the birds we saw at the Visitor’s Center included American robin, white-throated sparrow, northern mockingbird, and American goldfinch. We saw 15 species along the Dike Trail. There were large groups of American avocets and …
I went on a birdwalk with the Sussex Bird Club. The next destination after we finished James Farm Ecological Preserve was just up the road a few minutes to Quillens Point. Many of the birds we saw were distant including a bald eagle, belted kingfisher, …
Our first stop was at the Prime Hook NWR Visitor’s Center. We only identified Carolina wren, tufted titmouse, northern mockingbird, mourning dove, American robin, Carolina chickadee, and fish crow from there. We spent most of our time along the Dike Trail where we identified 30 …
We covered four areas of the refuge this morning. From the Visitor’s Center, some of the birds we saw were flocks of snowy egrets, belted kingfisher, American goldfinch, osprey, and northern mockingbird. We picked up 25 species along the Dike Trail including several immature little …
Our second stop in the morning was the DuPont Nature Center. Some of the birds we saw there from the observation platform were osprey, barn swallow, American oystercatcher, brown pelican, red knot (1), double-crested cormorant, semipalmated plover, dunlin, great blue heron, Canada goose, sanderling, ruddy …
We birded along Big Stone Beach Road in the Milford Neck Wildlife Area for our first stop in the morning. We birded both sides of the road and the highlight in the marsh on the south side was four king rails. Two were adults and …
We birded the southern half of Gordon’s Pond Trail this morning. Some of the birds we identified included indigo bunting, blue grosbeak, orchard oriole, bald eagle (2), red-winged blackbird, green heron, snowy egret, great egret, brown-headed cowbird, chimney swift, pine warbler, red-shouldered hawk, laughing gull, …
We spent most of the morning in four areas of the refuge. By the Visitor’s Center we heard a yellow-billed cuckoo in the distance. Some other birds identified there included purple martin, ruby-throated hummingbird, chipping sparrow, and common yellowthroat. We identified 28 species along the …
