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 …
Our first stop was at the Prime Hook NWR Visitor’s Center. We only identified Carolina wren, tufted titmouse, northern mockingbird, mourning dove, American robin, Carolina chickadee, and fish crow from there. We spent most of our time along the Dike Trail where we identified 30 …
We went on a field trip with the Sussex Bird Club to Cape Henlopen State Park. Our intent was to walk the northern part of Gordon’s Pond Trail but, unfortunately, it was closed due to maintenance. Instead, we walked along the Walking Dunes Trail to …
Our first stop was at The Point beach below the parking lot. The tide was fairly low and we saw many birds on the sandbars and in the shallow water. We estimated seeing about 50 brown pelicans. We saw two American oystercatchers. One had the …
I went on an outing with the Coastal Camera Club, Wildlife Special Interest Group (Wildlife SIG), to Delaware Seashore State Park. We went to the New Road beach area overlooking Rehoboth Bay. We specifically were there to watch the flocks of white ibises fly to …
Our first stop was at The Point below the parking lot. The tide was almost high so we didn’t see many birds feeding on the mudflats. Some of the birds we saw here were mourning dove, royal tern, osprey, double-crested cormorant, brown pelican, willet, barn …
We covered four areas of the refuge this morning. From the Visitor’s Center, some of the birds we saw were flocks of snowy egrets, belted kingfisher, American goldfinch, osprey, and northern mockingbird. We picked up 25 species along the Dike Trail including several immature little …
I went on a bird trip with the Sussex Bird Club to Bombay Hook NWR. The group consisted of about 20 people. We drove together caravan-style to five areas of the refuge. The following describes the birds that I identified (some people saw some birds …
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 …
I went on a field trip with the Sussex Bird Club. Before we started, I checked around the visitor’s center and some of the birds I identified there were purple martin, orchard oriole, northern mockingbird, and fish crow. Our group of 13 birders started along …
