We first birded along the Indian River Inlet. Although the tide was still coming in, no birds were swimming in the inlet itself. We saw offshore mainly common loon, great black-backed gull, long-tailed duck, and black scoter. We saw by the parking lot a ring-billed …
I went on a field trip with the Sussex Bird Club. There were about 25 of us in the group. Our first stop was the south side of the Indian River Inlet. It was near high tide so there weren’t many birds in the inlet …
We spent the second half of the day back at Largo Central Park Nature Preserve for the third time in the last five days. We took mostly the same trails as before along the boardwalk around the pond and then the trail by the creek …
This was our first visit to Eagle Lake Park in Largo. The park is big and it has two lakes, what I call the North Lake and the South Lake. The South Lake area was much better for birds. Some of the birds we identified …
This was our second trip to in three days to Largo Central Park Nature Preserve. We took mostly the same trails along the boardwalk around the pond and then the trail by the creek and around past the golf course to the shortcut to the …
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 …
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, …
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, …
For the first part of our trip today, we birded at Burton Island. There were about 13 black-crowned night herons in the field and trees on the south side of the dirt parking lot. They were a mixture of adults and immatures. Other birds seen …
We went to the Hawk Watch platform first and then took the trail to the beach. The birds we identified were northern gannet, yellow-rumped warbler, lesser and greater black-backed gulls, ring-billed gull, a small flock of sanderlings, two horned grebes, red-throated loon, double-crested cormorant, dark-eyed …
