We birded along Big Stone Beach Road in the Milford Neck Wildlife Area for our first stop in the morning. We birded both sides of the road and the highlight in the marsh on the south side was four king rails. Two were adults and …
I went on a field trip with the Sussex Bird Club. Before we started, I checked around the visitor’s center and some of the birds I identified there were purple martin, orchard oriole, northern mockingbird, and fish crow. Our group of 13 birders started along …
We covered four areas of the park this morning. We began at Herring Point where some of the birds we saw were brown pelicans (7), northern cardinal, laughing gull, osprey, and semipalmated sandpiper. Next, we moved to The Point area below the parking lot. The …
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, …
We spent most of the morning in four areas of the refuge. By the Visitor’s Center we heard a yellow-billed cuckoo in the distance. Some other birds identified there included purple martin, ruby-throated hummingbird, chipping sparrow, and common yellowthroat. We identified 28 species along the …
Our first birding trip to Rhode Island started at Ninigret NWR. In the Salt Pond Unit, we began on the Foster Cove Trail where some of the birds we identified were common loon, prairie warbler, white-eyed vireo, eastern towhee, herring gull, and American goldfinch. The …
Our first birding trip to Massachusetts started at Gooseberry Island in Westport. Gooseberry Island is actually a narrow peninsula connected by a narrower causeway. We walked the trail from the parking lot to the World War II observation towers. It was a cloudy morning but …
We walked along the trails in the southwest part of the area. Despite the overcast, we were able to identify 23 species in about one and one-half hours. Species we saw included Baltimore oriole, willet, killdeer, barn swallow, bobolink (in the field near the parking …
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 second day of our two-day visit to Chincoteague NWR. We birded in six areas of the refuge and identified 46 species on the day. The first area was along Beach Road where we saw 25 species on both sides of the road …
