Our first stop was at the Indian River Inlet. The tide was low and the jetties were exposed as much as possible. Birds we saw on the jetties included sanderling, purple sandpiper, ruddy turnstone, herring gull, and ring-billed gull. Great cormorants were resting on the …
We covered several areas within the refuge, starting along Beach Road. Birds we saw along the road included great egret, snowy egret, tricolored heron, peregrine falcon, osprey, royal tern, bald eagle, herring gull, laughing gull, willet, and tree swallow. Near the area of the Tom’s …
I went birding with several members of the Sussex Bird Club and we covered three areas of the refuge. By the Visitor’s Center we got a good look at a red-tailed hawk in a tree by the parking lot. There were still purple martins hanging …
We covered three areas of the park this morning. First, we went to The Point area below the parking lot. The tide was low and there were hundreds of laughing gulls on the mudflats. Some of the other birds we saw there were semipalmated sandpiper, …
We went on a field trip with the Sussex Bird Club. First we went on the deck at the DuPont Nature Center. Thousands of birds were seen on the beach and along the rocks. Most of the shorebirds were ruddy turnstones, dunlins, and semipalmated sandpipers. …
We covered five areas of the refuge today. By the Visitor’s Center, we identified Canada goose, indigo bunting, purple martin, and brown-headed cowbird, among others. Along the Leeds Eco Trail, we identified 16 species including snowy egret, osprey, glossy ibis, tree swallow, barn swallow, clapper …
We visited Fort De Soto Park. Birding was not as good as in previous years—the Bay Pier was closed for renovations, the East Tip Turnaround was mobbed with vehicles and people for a kite-surfing festival, and it was very windy. The first of our four …
Our first stop was at The Point beach below the parking lot. The tide was fairly low and we saw many birds on the sandbars and in the shallow water. We estimated seeing about 50 brown pelicans. We saw two American oystercatchers. One had the …
Our first stop was at The Point below the parking lot. The tide was almost high so we didn’t see many birds feeding on the mudflats. Some of the birds we saw here were mourning dove, royal tern, osprey, double-crested cormorant, brown pelican, willet, barn …
Our second stop in the morning was the DuPont Nature Center. Some of the birds we saw there from the observation platform were osprey, barn swallow, American oystercatcher, brown pelican, red knot (1), double-crested cormorant, semipalmated plover, dunlin, great blue heron, Canada goose, sanderling, ruddy …
