Delaware Trip List 8/15-8/17

We traveled around Bombay Hook each day, made our trip south to Prime Hook, and on Sunday hit a couple of favorite spots--the DuPont Nature Center in Mispillion and the very rocky, sandy, torn up Port Mahon Road, where we found both Red Knots and Black Scoters.

We had 87 species for the trip--I'm sure with a lot more patience and a little more knowledge I could have added 5 or 6 others. But looking through large flocks of gulls, terns, or skittering peeps, is not something I'm often inclined to do.

Sculpture of Moonbird, a Red Knot that has traveled the equivalent distance to the moon in its migration life.
DuPont Nature Center, Mispillion Delaware

Species                   Location

Snow Goose     Bombay Hook

Canada Goose     Bombay Hook

Tundra Swan     Bombay Hook

Wood Duck     Bombay Hook

American Black Duck     Bombay Hook

Mallard     Bombay Hook

Northern Shoveler     Bombay Hook

Black Scoter     Port Mahon

Ruddy Duck     Bombay Hook

Northern Bobwhite     Bombay Hook

Double-crested Cormorant     Bombay Hook

Great Blue Heron     Bombay Hook

Great Egret     Bombay Hook

Snowy Egret     Bombay Hook

Little Blue Heron     Bombay Hook

Green Heron     Bombay Hook

Black-crowned Night-Heron     Bombay Hook

Glossy Ibis     Bombay Hook

Turkey Vulture     Bombay Hook

Osprey     Bombay Hook

Cooper's Hawk     DuPont Nature Center

Bald Eagle     Prime Hook NWR

Clapper Rail     Bombay Hook

Black-necked Stilt     Prime Hook NWR--Broadkill Marsh

American Avocet     Bombay Hook

American Oystercatcher     DuPont Nature Center

Black-bellied Plover     Bombay Hook

Semipalmated Plover     Bombay Hook

Killdeer     Whitehall Crossroads - Leipsic

Spotted Sandpiper     Bombay Hook

Greater Yellowlegs     Bombay Hook

Willet     DuPont Nature Center

Lesser Yellowlegs     Bombay Hook

Ruddy Turnstone     DuPont Nature Center

Red Knot     Port Mahon

Least Sandpiper     Bombay Hook

Semipalmated Sandpiper     Bombay Hook

Short-billed Dowitcher     Bombay Hook

Laughing Gull     Bombay Hook

Ring-billed Gull     Bombay Hook

Herring Gull     Bombay Hook

Great Black-backed Gull     DuPont Nature Center

Caspian Tern     Bombay Hook

Forster's Tern     Bombay Hook

Royal Tern     DuPont Nature Center

Mourning Dove     Bombay Hook

Yellow-billed Cuckoo     Bombay Hook

Ruby-throated Hummingbird     Bombay Hook

Red-bellied Woodpecker     Bombay Hook

Downy Woodpecker     Bombay Hook

Northern Flicker     Bombay Hook

Peregrine Falcon     Bombay Hook

Eastern Wood-Pewee     Bombay Hook

Eastern Phoebe     Bombay Hook

Great Crested Flycatcher     Prime Hook NWR

Eastern Kingbird     Bombay Hook

Red-eyed Vireo     Bombay Hook

Blue Jay     Bombay Hook

American Crow     Bombay Hook

Horned Lark     Whitehall Crossroads - Leipsic

Tree Swallow     Whitehall Crossroads - Leipsic

Barn Swallow     Whitehall Crossroads - Leipsic

Carolina Chickadee     Bombay Hook

Tufted Titmouse     Bombay Hook

House Wren     Bombay Hook

SEDGE WREN     Bombay Hook

Marsh Wren     Bombay Hook

Carolina Wren     Bombay Hook

Eastern Bluebird     Bombay Hook

American Robin     Bombay Hook

Gray Catbird     Bombay Hook

Northern Mockingbird     Bombay Hook

European Starling     Bombay Hook

Common Yellowthroat     Bombay Hook

Eastern Towhee     Bombay Hook

Chipping Sparrow     Prime Hook NWR

Field Sparrow     Bombay Hook

Song Sparrow     Bombay Hook

Northern Cardinal     Bombay Hook

Blue Grosbeak     Bombay Hook

Indigo Bunting     Bombay Hook

Bobolink     Bombay Hook

Red-winged Blackbird     Bombay Hook

Boat-tailed Grackle     DuPont Nature Center

Orchard Oriole     Bombay Hook

American Goldfinch     Bombay Hook

House Sparrow     Bombay Hook