The pools we visited today (Raymond, Shearness, Finis, and Bear Swamp) were mostly frozen due to the recent cold weather. The tidal areas were mixed frozen and open while the ditches on the tidal side of the road were mostly open. We stopped in six …
We birded in three areas of the park. Our first stop was the bay shore below The Point parking lot. The tide was low but no birds were feeding in the shallow areas. We saw several birds in the water and flying around including great …
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 …
I went on a birdwalk with the Sussex Bird club along the northern part of Gordon’s Pond Trail. While gathering in the parking lot, an adult bald eagle came by with a fish and landed in a nearby tree. While we watched it eat, another …
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, …
I went on a birdwalk with the Sussex Bird Club. The first destination was James Farm Ecological Preserve. The group split up and I went along the group that took the Red Trail to the bay. I identified 30 species along this trail (some group …
The Point is now open and we walked the entire loop starting from the ocean side. The tide was low but there weren’t many birds on the mudflats on the bay side. We heard a Carolina wren from the parking lot. These were the ten …
On this great weather day, we venture to Cape Henlopen State Park. The first stop was along Gordon’s Pond Trail (North side) where we identified 36 species. There was a lot of activity in the trees bordering the parking lot including red-breasted nuthatch, yellow-billed cuckoo, …
We took three trails today, starting with Beach Road. As we went towards the beach, we turned onto the Woodland Trail and birded that trail before heading the rest of the way on Beach Road. Some of the birds we identified along Beach Road were …
We birded in six areas of the refuge today. The most species (15) were seen along Beach Road including great egret, snowy egret, American black duck, white ibis, tricolored heron, great blue heron, Forster’s tern, and royal tern. At Tom’s Cove Visitor’s Center, birds we …
