This was our second day (see our first day’s activity here) in a row birding at Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) in Cambridge, MD. We joined up with fellow members of the Wildlife Special Interest Group of the Coastal Camera Club. They have outings like …
We went birding this afternoon at Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) in Cambridge, MD. It was our first time there. This is a great place for birding and photography. There is a lot of water and open spaces to see waterfowl and bald eagles. We …
This morning started out with a little fog but that cleared out by around 10:00 AM. We covered four areas of the refuge. The Raymond Pool observation tower gave us great views of the pool including Canada geese, American avocets, northern pintails, green-winged teal, northern …
We birded in two areas of the park. First we walked along Gordon’s Pond Trail (north side) and saw a merlin, yellow-rumped warbler, palm warbler, bufflehead, and an adult bald eagle. At Herring Point, we saw ring-billed, lesser black-backed, and great black-backed gulls. In the …
It was a mostly cloudy day at Prime Hook NWR. The light wasn’t very good or taking photos but I was able to take a few pictures at least. We birded the Visitor’s Center, Dike Trail, and Boardwalk Trail and identified 30 species. The best …
I identified 32 species of birds in these five areas—Visitor’s Center, Raymond Pool, Shearness Pool and Marsh, Bear Swamp Pool, and Boardwalk Trail. In the Raymond and Shearness pools were short-billed dowitchers, northern pintails, northern shovelers, American wigeons, black-bellied plovers, dunlins, and pied-billed grebes, among …
We birded in three main areas of the park. Birds in the parking lot area we identified included Carolina wren, Carolina chickadee, and fish and American crows. Along the Seahawk Trail, we identified common yellowthroat, pine warbler, Carolina chickadee, eastern bluebird, chipping sparrow, and downy …
We covered four areas of the refuge from the morning until early afternoon. Around the Visitor’s Center were Carolina chickadee, turkey vulture, and blue jay. The Dike Trail was excellent and we identified 39 species there including cedar waxwing, osprey, pileated woodpecker, American avocet, great …
This afternoon’s trip covered the Boardwalk Trail, Raymond Pool, Shearness Pool and Marsh, and Bear Swamp Pool. We found great and snowy egrets, prairie warbler, dunlin, red-breasted nuthatch, and two bald eagles (one adult and one immature) along the Boardwalk Trail. Among the birds we …
Chincoteague NWR has always been one of our favorite birding spots, having gone there since 1982. We spent the day there today and covered several areas. Along Beach Road we saw great, snowy, and cattle egrets. The cattle egrets were riding on the backs of …
