We decided to do a late afternoon birdwalk at Prime Hook NWR. The Visitor’s Center was lacking many birds. All we saw there were mourning dove, northern mockingbird, and European starling (flocks). There were no purple martins by the apartments, apparently having migrated south. We …
I went birding with several members of the Sussex Bird Club and we covered three areas of the refuge. By the Visitor’s Center we got a good look at a red-tailed hawk in a tree by the parking lot. There were still purple martins hanging …
I went on a birdwalk with the Sussex Bird Club to Prime Hook NWR. There were 14 members of the group attending the trip. While people were arriving, I checked out the birds in the parking lot by the Visitor’s Center. Some of these birds …
It was a hazy day due to the smoke from eastern Canadian forest fires but also a good day as we identified 55 species. We covered five areas of the refuge. Some of the birds we identified by the Visitor’s Center were purple martin, eastern …
We went on a field trip with the Sussex Bird Club. First we went on the deck at the DuPont Nature Center. Thousands of birds were seen on the beach and along the rocks. Most of the shorebirds were ruddy turnstones, dunlins, and semipalmated sandpipers. …
For the second time in three days, we went to the Ocean City Welcome Center. Unlike two days ago, the sky was clear and we got better lighting on the birds as viewed from the elevated parking lot. Some of the birds we saw were …
We covered five areas of the refuge today. By the Visitor’s Center, we identified Canada goose, indigo bunting, purple martin, and brown-headed cowbird, among others. Along the Leeds Eco Trail, we identified 16 species including snowy egret, osprey, glossy ibis, tree swallow, barn swallow, clapper …
The vantage point from the parking lot overlooking the rookery was spectacular. Birds, mostly herons, egrets, and ibises, were busy flying in and out. Many were nesting and some had eggs. Some of the birds we saw were yellow-crowned night heron, black-crowned night heron, great …
There was quite a variety of birds today at Bombay Hook NWR as we identified 62 species. All the pools and marsh areas were filled with water. Birds identified at the Visitor’s Center included yellow warbler, American goldfinch, eastern towhee, tree swallow, and common yellowthroat. …
We went to Honeymoon Island State Park and birded in three areas. The first stop was the Nature Center area. The tide was very low but some of the birds we identified included American white pelican, tricolored heron, yellow-rumped warbler, red-breasted merganser, killdeer, roseate spoonbill, …
