We went to the Ocean City Welcome Center for the first part of our day. It was cloudy during our visit, so it wasn’t the best lighting for photography. Nonetheless, we saw a decent variety of birds in the rookery and while we walked along …
For the second part of our day, we went back to Edwin B. Forsythe NWR. This time, we started along Wildlife Drive where we picked up 27 species. Some of the birds we saw here were snowy egret, osprey, great egret, brant, American herring gull, …
We covered five areas of the refuge. Some of the birds near the Visitor’s Center included Carolina wren, chipping sparrow, and house finch. The purple martins are back. The next stop was the Leeds Eco-Trail boardwalk. Birds we identified there included osprey, bald eagle, northern …
We went on a field trip with the Sussex County Bird Club. Most of the trip was spent along the south side of the Gordon’s Pond Trail. Water levels in the pond were very low. Some of the birds we identified were pine warbler, snowy …
I went on a two-part field trip with the Sussex Bird Club. The day started at Assawoman Wildlife Area. The few birds we identified from the gravel parking lot were pine warbler, American crow, Carolina wren, and northern cardinal. We spent the most time by …
This was the second of a two-part field trip I attended with the Sussex Bird Club. We went to the south jetty at the Indian River Inlet. Two female harlequin ducks were seen by the rocks at the end of the jetty near the tower. …
We covered five areas of the refuge today. We saw the most bird species (20) in Raymond Pool which was our first area. American avocets, green-winged teal, and northern shovelers were the most abundant birds we saw in this area. Other birds included tree swallow, …
We started at Fleetwood Pond. Although the water level was back to normal, there were no birds in that area. Next, we went to Dike Trail. Some of the birds we saw there were Canada goose, black-bellied plover, dunlin, northern harrier, ring-billed gull, American herring …
We went to two areas of the park starting at the Indian River Inlet. It was low tide and there were over 200 scoters by the jetty. Most of them were black scoters, but there were surf scoters mixed in as well. Other birds seen …
We birded today with other members of the Sussex Bird Club. We started from the parking lot, walked to the beach, then went back to the parking lot. We hoped to see short-eared owls but there weren’t any. Some of the birds we saw were …
