I went on a field trip to Gordon’s Pond Trail southside with the Sussex Bird Club. Before hitting the trail, we went to the beach for a quick look and saw double-crested cormorant, common loon, red-throated loon, and northern gannet. Along the trail at the …
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 …
In the pond across the observatory, we saw Canada goose, mute swan, and mallard. There may have been other species but the dense line of trees in front of the pond made it difficult to see anything else. We took the short trail to the …
We started from the parking lot by the boat ramp on the west side of the lake. From there, we walked along the west side of the lake to the northwest where we took the trail along the dike to near its end. We saw …
I went on a birdwalk with about 20 members of the Sussex Bird Club. We walked along the north side of Gordon’s Pond Trail from the parking lot to between Benches 6 and 5. Some of the birds we identified included golden-crowned kinglet, merlin (perched …
I went birding with three other members of the Sussex Bird Club and we led a birdwalk for the public. Some of the birds we identified by the Visitor’s Center included American robin, American crow, American black duck (overhead), northern harrier, and white-throated sparrow. Birding …
We birded from the parking lot near the Visitor’s Center to the Observation Tower and back (along the north part of the main trail). There were at least 100 tree swallows flying over the impoundment. A small group of rough-winged swallows landed in a tree …
We birded along both trails. The first trail (South Trail) was the main, paved trail. Some of the birds we identified along this trail included Cooper’s hawk, northern cardinal, American robin, pine warbler, belted kingfisher, brown-headed nuthatch, white-eyed vireo, great blue heron, red-winged blackbird, gray …
