I went on a field trip to Gordon’s Pond Trail southside with the Sussex Bird Club. Before hitting the trail, we went to the beach for a quick look and saw double-crested cormorant, common loon, red-throated loon, and northern gannet. Along the trail at the …
We covered two areas of the park. First, we took the north part of Gordon’s Pond trail from the parking lot to Bench 5. Birds we saw along this trail included northern cardinal, dark-eyed junco, pine warbler, eastern bluebird, yellow-rumped warbler, osprey, killdeer, great blue …
We walked our usual two trails through the preserve. First, we took the Red Trail to the beach and back. Some of the 31 birds we identified along this trail were eastern bluebird, cedar waxwing, eastern towhee, tufted titmouse, osprey (first one this year locally), …
We made five stops in the refuge. Near the refuge’s new visitor center that just opened a few days ago, we identified turkey vulture, red-winged blackbird, Carolina wren, blue jay, and Canada goose. Our next stop was Raymond Pool. Some of the birds we saw …
We covered two areas of the park. The first was in the East Launch area and we walked along the lake’s edge up to the woods. Birds we identified here included common merganser, bufflehead, belted kingfisher, song sparrow, greater scaup, downy woodpecker, eastern bluebird, great …
I went on a field trip with the Sussex Bird Club this morning. Our first stop was at the Indian River Inlet. There were many long-tailed ducks in the inlet. Some great cormorants were on the tower at the end of the jetty. Other birds …
We walked along the beach behind the park from the inlet jetty to the high-rise buildings. Some of the birds we saw included royal tern, least tern, sandwich tern, Forster’s tern, semipalmated plover, anhinga, American oystercatcher, ruddy turnstone, willet, black-bellied plover, western sandpiper, sanderling, brown …
As we did two days ago, we walked around the pond first, then we walked the trail by the creek and golf course. Birds we saw today included purple gallinule, common gallinule, yellow-crowned night heron, anhinga, white ibis, tricolored heron, limpkin, great blue heron, monk …
We started by walking through the park from the street entrance and continued to the beach until we reached the high-rise buildings. Birds we saw included blue-winged teal, royal tern, least tern, sandwich tern, ruddy turnstone, ring-billed gull, American oystercatcher, brown pelican, black-bellied plover, western …
Our first stop was the Boat Ramp area. We walked from the ramp along the boardwalk to where it ended. Some of the birds we saw were red-shouldered hawk, anhinga, osprey, common gallinule, American coot, great blue heron, palm warbler, yellow-rumped warbler, and tufted titmouse. …
