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 …
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, …
We birded along Big Stone Beach Road in the Milford Neck Wildlife Area for our first stop in the morning. We birded both sides of the road and the highlight in the marsh on the south side was four king rails. Two were adults and …
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 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 …
We birded in three areas of the refuge. We started out at the Visitor’s Center and walked along the entrance road to Foord’s Landing Road. Some of the birds that were identified along this segment of our walk were snow geese (flock heading north), northern …
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 stop was at the DuPont Nature Center. We saw two bald eagles (one adult and one immature), three gull species (great black-backed, ring-billed, and herring), bufflehead, northern harrier, a small flock of greater yellowlegs, dozens of dunlins, one black-bellied plover, and a few …
A field trip with the Sussex Bird Club took us to Delaware Seashore State Park. We birded the Indian River Inlet and beach first. Many northern gannets were scene and were relatively closer to the shore than normal. There were a few female long-tailed ducks …
