This was our first visit to Assateague Island in seven months and we covered our usual four areas. The first stop was Life of the Marsh. Birds found in this are included willet, Forster’s tern, American oystercatcher, black-bellied plover, dunlin, laughing gull, ruddy turnstone, least …
Despite cloudy, breezy, and windy conditions, birding was decent at the refuge today at our four stops. Upon arrival, a male ruby-throated hummingbird was on the red flowers by the volunteer shed at the visitor’s center. Other birds identified in this area included chipping sparrow, …
We birded in seven areas of the refuge. The Bear Swamp Pool was closed due to a fox with kits. A few birds we identified by the Visitor’s Center were common yellowthroat, purple martin, American goldfinch, and red-bellied woodpecker. Next, we walked the Raymond Pool …
As we did two days ago, we walked around the pond first, then we walked the trail by the creek and golf course. Birds we saw today included purple gallinule, common gallinule, yellow-crowned night heron, anhinga, white ibis, tricolored heron, limpkin, great blue heron, monk …
We walked around the pond first, then we walked the trail by the creek and golf course. We saw many birds in these areas including boat-tailed grackle, yellow-crowned night heron, common gallinule, double-crested cormorant, limpkin, purple gallinule, white ibis, muscovy duck, tricolored heron, anhinga, pied-billed …
We covered the two areas of the park we usually do. In the park area behind the pond were two roseate spoonbills sleeping. Other birds seen by or in the pond include lesser scaup, great egret, white ibis, snowy egret, redhead, double-crested cormorant, tricolored heron, …
We went to Fowler Beach to hopefully see a short-eared owl or two late in the afternoon but they were no-shows. Some birds we identified along the beach were sanderling, dunlin, bald eagle, ring-billed gull, surf scoter, bufflehead, common loon, red-winged blackbird (flock), snow bunting …
I went on a field trip with the Sussex Bird Club to Fowler Beach. We found a few short-eared owls mixed in with some northern harriers over the marsh in the late afternoon. In the bay were some surf scoters and buffleheads. Further south along …
We hoped to see some canvasbacks on Silver Lake but, although some were reported recently, we didn’t see any. Most of the birds swimming on the lake were Canada geese, double-crested cormorants, ring-billed gulls, red-breasted mergansers, and mallards. Other birds identified were bald eagle (imm.), …
We started in the parking lot area and only identified mute swan (group flying), northern mockingbird, and eastern bluebird. The Duck Pond Trail was productive with 22 species identified including mute swan, American wigeon, Eurasian wigeon, Canada goose, gadwall, American coot, green-winged teal, northern pintail, …
