I went on a birdwalk with the Sussex Bird Club. The first destination was James Farm Ecological Preserve. The group split up and I went along the group that took the Red Trail to the bay. I identified 30 species along this trail (some group …
On this great weather day, we venture to Cape Henlopen State Park. The first stop was along Gordon’s Pond Trail (North side) where we identified 36 species. There was a lot of activity in the trees bordering the parking lot including red-breasted nuthatch, yellow-billed cuckoo, …
We birded in six areas of the refuge today. The most species (15) were seen along Beach Road including great egret, snowy egret, American black duck, white ibis, tricolored heron, great blue heron, Forster’s tern, and royal tern. At Tom’s Cove Visitor’s Center, birds we …
Our first stop was at the Prime Hook NWR Visitor’s Center. We only identified Carolina wren, tufted titmouse, northern mockingbird, mourning dove, American robin, Carolina chickadee, and fish crow from there. We spent most of our time along the Dike Trail where we identified 30 …
We took the main trail from the parking lot to the beach and walked along the beach northward to where there was a large area of water on our left. Some of the birds we identified were cedar waxwing, scarlet tanager, osprey, American goldfinch, common …
We birded most of the trails in the refuge. Starting at the contact station, we walked part of the Farm Field Loop Trail to the Osprey Point Trail to the Red Maple Swamp Trail to the Otter Point Trail. The dominant bird species we saw …
The refuge was very busy as we identified 65 species throughout the day. There were so many eagles, most of them immature, that we stopped counting them after seeing more than ten in each area. Highlights from the Visitor’s Center included purple martin, American goldfinch, …
Our first stop in Redden State Forest was in the Headquarters Tract. Many of the birds were found between the parking lot and the lodge. Of note, we saw a few summer tanagers (male and female) and a couple of worm-eating warblers. Other birds identified …
Our short, two-hour visit to the refuge nonetheless enabled us to accumulate 44 species. By the Visitor’s Center, a male ruby-throated hummingbird was sipping the trumpet honeysuckle flowers next to the Friends of Prime Hook house. Other birds identified in this area included purple martin, …
We went on a birding trip to Redden State Forest with the Sussex Bird Club. We covered the Headquarters Tract with them before leaving the group early. We saw two blue-gray gnatcatcher nests with gnatcatchers going in and out of them. One of the gnatcatchers …
