I went on a Sussex Bird Club trip. There were 27 people in the group on this nice spring day. We covered two areas. First, we circled the areas around the Nature Center and parking lots. Birds we identified here included eastern bluebird, Carolina chickadee, …
We started out by walking the trails near the Pavilion followed by the River trails. Most of the birds that we identified in this park were from these trails. Some of these birds were summer tanager (by the parking lot), lark sparrow, Swainson’s hawk, lesser …
We started at the end of the parking lot and mainly walked around the lake and primitive camping area loop. We got a good look at a Swainson’s hawk that flew over us. There were very few birds on the lake, and we only saw …
Our first stop in the refuge was the Shin Oak Observation Deck. The main attraction to this area for us and others who were there was the black-capped vireo. It was recently removed from the endangered species list and we were excited to find it …
We birded the trail on the west side of the park along the west side of South Pleasant Valley Road from the dam to across the Oracle building. It was cloudy and windy but we managed to identify these birds: great-tailed grackle, white-winged dove, northern …
We turned on Commons Ford Road to enter the park and we were greeted by two greater roadrunners on the right side of the road. We continued driving up the hill to the end of the public road. In this area, some of the birds …
We covered two areas of the park. First, we took the north part of Gordon’s Pond trail from the parking lot to Bench 5. Birds we saw along this trail included northern cardinal, dark-eyed junco, pine warbler, eastern bluebird, yellow-rumped warbler, osprey, killdeer, great blue …
We walked our usual two trails through the preserve. First, we took the Red Trail to the beach and back. Some of the 31 birds we identified along this trail were eastern bluebird, cedar waxwing, eastern towhee, tufted titmouse, osprey (first one this year locally), …
In the Visitor’s Center area, we heard more birds than we saw. Some of the birds we identified included red-shouldered hawk, Carolina wren, northern flicker, song sparrow, swamp sparrow, and red-winged blackbird. The Dike Trail was fairly active. Birds we identified there included brown-headed cowbird, …
We covered two areas of the park. The first was in the East Launch area and we walked along the lake’s edge up to the woods. Birds we identified here included common merganser, bufflehead, belted kingfisher, song sparrow, greater scaup, downy woodpecker, eastern bluebird, great …
