I birded the bay area below The Point parking lot first and identified royal, Caspian, and common terns, brown pelicans, and ospreys. Along the Seaside Nature Trail I found brown pelicans, laughing and great black-backed gulls, great egrets, and double-crested cormorants. It was a slow …
Today’s trip took us around the usual spots in the refuge—Raymond Pool, Shearness Pool and marsh, Bear Swamp Pool, Bear Swamp Observation Trail, and Raymond Pool Observation Trail. The Boardwalk Trail was closed due to flooding but we identified glossy ibises, greater yellowlegs, red-eyed vireo, …
We birded along the south side of Gordon’s Pond Trail from the parking lot to the north side of the observation deck. We saw several bank swallows in a dead tree. Barn swallows were also flying around. Perching birds seen included Carolina chickadee, blue grosbeak, …
