Our first stop at the Visitor’s Center yielded only five species: turkey vulture, American crow, house finch, Carolina wren, and tufted titmouse. The Leeds Eco-Trail only yielded blue jay and American crow. We identified 24 species along Wildlife Drive. The two highlights were a flock …
We went on a field trip with the Sussex Bird Club. Our walk started from the parking lot and we went to the beach and back. We hoped to find short-eared owls from the parking lot at the end of the day but we didn’t …
We birded in six areas of the refuge today. We only identified three species in the area around the Visitor’s Center—Canada goose, house sparrow, and Carolina wren. Raymond Pool and Shearness Pool were filled with water again. Birds we saw in Raymond Pool included ruddy …
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 …
The refuge was very busy as we identified 65 species throughout the day. There were so many eagles, most of them immature, that we stopped counting them after seeing more than ten in each area. Highlights from the Visitor’s Center included purple martin, American goldfinch, …
Our short, two-hour visit to the refuge nonetheless enabled us to accumulate 44 species. By the Visitor’s Center, a male ruby-throated hummingbird was sipping the trumpet honeysuckle flowers next to the Friends of Prime Hook house. Other birds identified in this area included purple martin, …
We went to two areas of the park. First, we started at Burton Island and saw three firsts of the season: osprey, great egret, and pine warbler. Other birds seen included bufflehead, red-breasted merganser, one greater scaup, black-crowned night-heron, tree swallow, boat-tailed grackle, house finch, …
We birded in five areas of the refuge this afternoon. We identified only three birds at the Visitor’s Center—turkey vulture, song sparrow, and American crow. The Dike Trail was moderately productive where some of the birds we identified included mallard, pileated woodpecker, northern pintail, green-winged …
Our second trip this afternoon took us north a little bit to Fowler Beach. Before we got there, we saw several thousand snow geese in a field near Fowler Beach on Prime Hook Road just before Cods Road. We drove to the parking lot at …
Our first trip this afternoon took us to Prime Hook NWR. From the Visitor’s Center area, we only saw turkey and black vultures. Dike Trail was much better in terms of birds. Some of the birds we saw along this trail included northern mockingbird, mallard …
