Several birds were nesting at the rookery including great egrets (some seen with eggs) and white ibises (some seen with newborns). Other birds identified included American oystercatcher, black-crowned night heron, yellow-crowned night heron, clapper rail, little blue heron, tricolored heron, glossy ibis, mallard, Canada goose …
We went on an open-to-the-public Saturday morning bird walk led by members of the Sussex Bird Club. Three areas were covered today. We started in the parking lot by the old Visitor’s Center. Some of the birds we identified there were purple martin, laughing gull, …
I went on a field trip with the Sussex Bird Club and we covered two of the forest tracts. The first tract was the Headquarters Tract. An eastern phoebe was nesting under the eaves of the Headquarters building. Other birds we identified here included Canada …
I attended an outing with the Coastal Camera Club’s Wildlife Special Interest Group to Prime Hook NWR. Birds identified from the old Visitor’s Center included purple martin, northern house wren, laughing gull, and chipping sparrow. Some of the birds seen along the Dike Trail were …
I went on a field trip with the Sussex Bird Club. We started birding by the Nature Center and went in a loop through the parking lot, field, and woods before heading back to the Nature Center. Birds we identified included blue grosbeak, chipping sparrow, …
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 an open-to-the-public Saturday morning bird walk led by members of the Sussex Bird Club. We covered three areas of the refuge. Starting in the parking lot, we noticed that the purple martins had returned and were occupying their apartments. Other birds seen …
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 …
