I went on a field trip with the Coastal Camera Club’s Wildlife Special Interest Group. After initially caravanning from the parking lot, we spread out and I spent most of the morning on my own. I covered seven areas altogether and accumulated 31 bird species. …
It was a cloudy start to the day at Bombay Hook NWR but we got some sun later on. We birded along Raymond Pool Observation Trail and on the tower, Shearness Pool Observation Trail and on the tower, Bear Swamp Pool, and along the roads …
We went birding this chilly morning (37 degrees at the start) at the Fowler Beach section of Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge (NWR). Fowler Beach Road ends at two small parking lots by a narrow channel. We saw a small flock of snow geese there …
This afternoon’s trip covered the Boardwalk Trail, Raymond Pool, Shearness Pool and Marsh, and Bear Swamp Pool. We found great and snowy egrets, prairie warbler, dunlin, red-breasted nuthatch, and two bald eagles (one adult and one immature) along the Boardwalk Trail. Among the birds we …
Today’s trip took us around the usual spots in the refuge—Raymond Pool, Shearness Pool and marsh, Bear Swamp Pool, Bear Swamp Observation Trail, and Raymond Pool Observation Trail. The Boardwalk Trail was closed due to flooding but we identified glossy ibises, greater yellowlegs, red-eyed vireo, …
