We walked the path around Taylor Lake. This path was mostly along the shoreline but it went through some wooded areas as well. Birds we saw included ring-billed gull, pied-billed grebe, green heron, American anhinga, white ibis, American coot, blue-gray gnatcatcher, palm warbler, common gallinule, …
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 …
For the second part of our trip to Merritt Island NWR today, we drove around East Gator Creek. We walked a little bit at first but then we decided to drive around the road. The highlight was seeing at least 50 white pelicans. Some of …
The trails were still covered in snow in many places although the beach areas were mostly cleared. We birded in two areas of the park starting from the beach below The Point parking lot. The tide was low and we saw many brants and gulls …
In the water to the south of the parking lot, we saw tundra swan, American black duck, and bufflehead. We walked to the beach next and, unfortunately, we saw about a dozen dead snow geese along the beach. We learned that there is a contagious …
I went on a late afternoon walk down Dike Trail hoping to find the rare northern lapwing that was seen the past two days but it was not there. Instead, some of the other birds I saw along the trail were great blue heron, tundra …
We went to Fowler Beach to hopefully spot a short-eared owl or two, but we didn’t see any. There were very few northern harriers hunting, too. Some of the birds we saw in the parking lot area included great blue heron, bufflehead, American black duck, …
I made a quick visit to Lewes Beach. It was cloudy with a cold breeze off the water. About 50 gulls were resting on the beach. They were American herring gull, ring-billed gull, and great black-backed gull. A red-throated loon was swimming in the water. …
After James Farm Ecological Preserve, we drove up to Quillen’s Point and birded from the area around the parking lot out towards Indian River Bay. We identified 12 birds in the short time we were there: bald eagle, bufflehead, common loon, Forster’s tern, peregrine falcon, …
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, …
