We covered a bit more ground here than we did yesterday. Some of the birds we identified along the Leeds Eco-Trail Boardwalk included house wren, purple martin, great blue heron, willet, great egret, common yellowthroat, gull-billed tern, seaside sparrow, and Canada goose. Among the birds …
We went to three areas of the park. The Red Trail was fairly quiet, especially in the ponds. Among the birds we identified there were osprey, indigo bunting, common yellowthroat, blue jay, mute swan, purple martin, and Carolina wren. The hawk watch Observation Deck was …
This was our first visit to Assateague Island in seven months and we covered our usual four areas. The first stop was Life of the Marsh. Birds found in this are included willet, Forster’s tern, American oystercatcher, black-bellied plover, dunlin, laughing gull, ruddy turnstone, least …
Despite cloudy, breezy, and windy conditions, birding was decent at the refuge today at our four stops. Upon arrival, a male ruby-throated hummingbird was on the red flowers by the volunteer shed at the visitor’s center. Other birds identified in this area included chipping sparrow, …
I went on a Sussex Bird Club trip. There were 27 people in the group on this nice spring day. We covered two areas. First, we circled the areas around the Nature Center and parking lots. Birds we identified here included eastern bluebird, Carolina chickadee, …
We birded the trail on the west side of the park along the west side of South Pleasant Valley Road from the dam to across the Oracle building. It was cloudy and windy but we managed to identify these birds: great-tailed grackle, white-winged dove, northern …
We turned on Commons Ford Road to enter the park and we were greeted by two greater roadrunners on the right side of the road. We continued driving up the hill to the end of the public road. In this area, some of the birds …
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), …
