We went on an open-to-the-public Saturday morning bird walk led by members of the Sussex Bird Club. We covered three areas of the refuge. Starting in the parking lot, we noticed that the purple martins had returned and were occupying their apartments. Other birds seen …
We walked the boardwalk around the lake first. After that, we took the trail along the creek around and across the golf course. There were three yellow-crowned night herons in their usual spot along the boardwalk between turns one and two, the same place as …
We covered most of the eastern part of the Wetlands today including Wetlands Blvd, Night Heron Lane, Bobcat Trail, Cypress Boardwalk, Osprey Blvd, Bald Eagle Blvd, and Limpkin Lane. On the south side of Bald Eagle Blvd, we were treated to seeing a male vermillion …
We first birded from the parking lot to the bay and back again. Some of the birds we identified were hermit thrush, golden-crowned kinglet, bald eagle, great blue heron, eastern bluebird, belted kingfisher, hairy woodpecker, and American robin. We estimated about 50 brants were swimming …
I went on a field trip with the Sussex Bird Club to Cape Henlopen State Park. First, we walked around the 2.6-mile-long Walking Dunes Trail. Some of the birds we identified along this trail included red-winged blackbird, downy woodpecker, brown-headed nuthatch, Cooper’s hawk, northern harrier, …
After birding by the parking lot near the Historic District, we went down to what was left of the lake. Two months earlier, heavy rains caused the dam to break and most of the lake was drained. However, there were some pools of water and …
We started birding from the parking lot, continued over the causeway, and looped around the island trail. Some of the birds we identified included white ibis (flock of 2), northern harrier, northern flicker, yellow-rumped warbler (many), osprey (6 were in three adjacent tees), gray catbird, …
I walked along parts of the Green, Orange, Red, and Purple Trails from the parking lot to the beach to the road. Some of the birds I identified were turkey vulture, royal tern, great egret, laughing gull, green heron, double-crested cormorant, brown pelican (flock of …
We birded the main trail loop on the south side of the road. We briefly saw an adult red-headed woodpecker in a dead tree at a moderate distance. Other birds identified along this trail included Baltimore oriole, white-eyed vireo, black vulture, laughing gull, great blue …
We walked around the southern trail loop. The highlight was that we saw an immature red-headed woodpecker land on a tree near us. We also heard a northern waterthrush in the pond on the outside of the loop. Other birds we identified included Canada goose …
