We birded the southern half of Gordon’s Pond Trail this morning. Some of the birds we identified included indigo bunting, blue grosbeak, orchard oriole, bald eagle (2), red-winged blackbird, green heron, snowy egret, great egret, brown-headed cowbird, chimney swift, pine warbler, red-shouldered hawk, laughing gull, …
Our third birding spot of the day brought us to Cherry and Webb Beach. We walked from the parking lot to the beach, then turned west and walked to where the beach rounds a corner. Part of the beach away from the shore was blocked …
This was the first day of our two-day visit to Chincoteague NWR. We birded in six areas of the refuge and identified 56 species on the day. The first area was along Beach Road. We saw 28 species along both sides of the road including …
We covered five areas in Assateague Island National Seashore. Our first stop was at Life of the Marsh. Highlights in this area included the following birds: black vulture, great egret, least tern, ruddy turnstone, little blue heron, brown pelican (flock of seven), willet, semipalmated plover, …
We went on a field trip with the Sussex Bird Club and covered three areas. There were about two dozen members attending the trip. The first area was at the DuPont Nature Center platform and on the nearby ground areas. There were hundreds of shorebirds …
The refuge was very busy as we identified 65 species throughout the day. There were so many eagles, most of them immature, that we stopped counting them after seeing more than ten in each area. Highlights from the Visitor’s Center included purple martin, American goldfinch, …
Our short, two-hour visit to the refuge nonetheless enabled us to accumulate 44 species. By the Visitor’s Center, a male ruby-throated hummingbird was sipping the trumpet honeysuckle flowers next to the Friends of Prime Hook house. Other birds identified in this area included purple martin, …
We birded this morning in two areas of Cape Henlopen State Park. Our first stop was the area near The Point on the bayside. It was low tide and many sandbars were exposed. We saw two American oystercatchers. One had orange bands with the symbols …
We birded in three areas of Cape Henlopen State Park. Our first stop was The Point area near the parking lot. Some of the birds we saw on the bay side included osprey, common merganser, great blue heron, and double-crested cormorant. On the ocean side, …
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 …
