Katie Bird Site: Great Cypress Swamp DOS President Joe Francis and Vice President Scott Northey joined the Delaware Master Naturalists in early March for a tour of Delaware’s Great Cypress Swamp, the largest continuous freshwater wetland in the state. The area is managed by Delaware Wild Lands, and the tour was led by their field ecologist, Andrew … Read more
Date: 22 March 2025Leader: Andy Ednie (last minute stand in for Ant and Chris!) Common Loon by Andy Ednie Indian River Inlet, Sussex, Delaware, USMar 22, 2025 8:00 AM – 11:59 AMObservers: 150.81 mile(s)Checklist Comments: DOS Sea Watch Field Tripclear to partly cloudyTemp: 47-59 FWind SW @ 5-10 mph30 species Harlequin Duck 4 … Read more
Date: 22 March 2025Leader: Joe Francis This was Bombay Hook’s 88th Anniversary Open House and Spring Festival so our party was larger than ever and included many first-time birders. Partly sunny with strong wind gusts, temperatures began in the mid 40s and reached the upper 50s. A strong showing of Brown-Headed Cowbirds with males flaunting … Read more
Date: 2 Feb 2025Trip Leader: Andy Ednie DOS field trip to north Jersey shore, Monmouth Co. Starting at Sandy Hook – Gateway National Recreation Area at 7:30 am and finishing at Manasquan Inlet at 4:00 pm. Weather:Very windy and cold preventing ocean watch.Temp 20-34 FPartly cloudy and slight snow squawWind E at 10-25 mph Participants … Read more
Date: 22 Feb 2025Leader: Joe Francis A much warmer day (25F to start; upper 30’s at end) yielded double the birders and birds as last month. We were treated to huge flocks of blackbirds (spring is coming!), numerous feisty Bald Eagles (hormones are surging!), and a flock of 7 Wild Turkeys (last month only fresh … Read more
Longtime DOS member Shannon Modla made us some more birdy valentines. Enjoy!
Date: 15 Jan 2025Trip Leader: Joe Francis Five determined, winter-hardy birders braved single-digit wind indices on a bright, sunny, and gusty day. Understandably, birds were quite scarce or hunkered down away from the wind. We had long periods of scant activity (time to practice winter woody plant ID) followed by brief bursts of multi-species flocks … Read more
Recap for Late Afternoon Bird Walk at the DuPont Environmental Education Center/Russell W. Peterson Refuge November 17,2024 by Joe Francis If some field trips are huge banquets with endless courses and many guests, this one was instead an intimate meal with close friends and a slowly savored, curated menu. Fittingly, the main course was “good … Read more
November 15th 2024Trip Leader: Jessica ShahanReport Author: Mary Braun Eastern Screech-owl by David Lewis. All birds were handled and banded for research purposes under state and federal permits. Twenty of us met at the Banding /Farm shed on Friday evening. It was a gorgeous clear night with a huge supermoon. This we found out was not … Read more
Trip Leaders: Chris Bennett & Anthony GonzonLocation: Indian River InletDate: Saturday, November 16, 2024Trip recap & photos by Carolyn Holland Sanderlings by Carolyn Holland. Sheltered from the strong 15-20 mph NW winds near the base of the sand dunes and behind a huge dump truck parked on the beach, we were able to scan the … Read more
