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, …
We went to the southern end of Gordon’s Pond Trail and walked from the parking lot to just beyond the one-mile marker. Birds we identified along this trail included yellow-rumped warbler, great blue heron, golden-crowned kinglet, ruby-crowned kinglet, white ibis (a few imms.), black-bellied plover, …
We covered four areas of the refuge today starting with the Leeds Eco-Trail Boardwalk. Birds identified along this trail included ruby-crowned kinglet, great egret, northern harrier, tree swallow, clapper rail, blue jay, and American goldfinch. We went to the Gull Pond Tower Trail next. Some …
We covered three areas of the park. Some birds we saw along the Red Trail and two overlooks included golden-crowned kinglet, yellow-rumped warbler, mallard, belted kingfisher, sharp-shinned hawk, Cooper’s hawk, northern harrier (“gray ghost”), mute swan, green-winged teal, northern pintail, northern shoveler, and gadwall. We …
