We went on an open-to-the-public First Saturday morning birdwalk led by members of the Sussex Bird Club. We took two trails starting with the Boardwalk Trail. Birds we saw along this trail included bald eagle, osprey, belted kingfisher, semipalmated plover, lesser yellowlegs, greater yellowlegs, white-eyed …
We took several trails throughout the Nature Center. Most of these trails were wooded. A good place where we saw a variety of birds was at the Bird Blind. Some of the birds we identified were white-breasted nuthatch, downy woodpecker, northern cardinal, red-bellied woodpecker, chestnut-sided …
We birded in seven areas of the refuge. Some of the birds we saw near the new Visitor’s Center were purple martin, osprey, and American goldfinch. A few of the birds we identified along the Raymond Pool Observation Trail and tower were Acadian flycatcher, willet, …
We birded by the maintenance building, part of Lake Trail up to the woods, and along Lions Head Drive up to the pond. The first two areas were the most active. There was a nesting pair of eastern phoebes under the eaves of the maintenance …
I went on a field trip with the Sussex Bird Club and we covered two of the forest tracts. The first tract was the Headquarters Tract. An eastern phoebe was nesting under the eaves of the Headquarters building. Other birds we identified here included Canada …
I went on a field trip with the Sussex Bird Club. We started birding by the Nature Center and went in a loop through the parking lot, field, and woods before heading back to the Nature Center. Birds we identified included blue grosbeak, chipping sparrow, …
We birded along the eastern side of the park, starting at the Bethesda Church parking lot and walking the path to the boardwalk over the swamp. Most of the interesting birds were found along this boardwalk. We saw two prothonotary warblers and a common yellowthroat …
We birded the main trail loop on the south side of the road. We briefly saw an adult red-headed woodpecker in a dead tree at a moderate distance. Other birds identified along this trail included Baltimore oriole, white-eyed vireo, black vulture, laughing gull, great blue …
We walked around the southern trail loop. The highlight was that we saw an immature red-headed woodpecker land on a tree near us. We also heard a northern waterthrush in the pond on the outside of the loop. Other birds we identified included Canada goose …
The main attraction by the Visitor’s Center was a red-tailed hawk perched high in a tree in the parking lot. We took the Leeds Eco-Trail Boardwalk next but it was quiet. Most of the birds we heard there included white-eyed vireo, gray catbird, and Carolina …
