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), …
In the Visitor’s Center area, we heard more birds than we saw. Some of the birds we identified included red-shouldered hawk, Carolina wren, northern flicker, song sparrow, swamp sparrow, and red-winged blackbird. The Dike Trail was fairly active. Birds we identified there included brown-headed cowbird, …
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. …
We walked around the South Lake. There were a lot of birds but not many different species. Birds that we identified included white ibis, laughing gull, tricolored heron, anhinga, common gallinule, turkey vulture, double-crested cormorant, yellow-rumped warbler, blue-gray gnatcatcher, pied-billed grebe, belted kingfisher, and red-shouldered …
We birded various areas of the park. The great-horned owl was in the same tree we’ve seen it in the past, between Picnic Areas 7 and 2. Other birds seen in the park included anhinga, red-bellied woodpecker, osprey, white ibis, spotted sandpiper, royal tern, roseate …
It was a cloudy day but we did reasonably well in seeing 37 species. We walked through three areas of the park with the first stop at the Nature Center. The tide was low so we saw many swimming and wading birds behind the building. …
