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Photo Study Of Birds Plus At Bombay Hook NWR And Port Mahon, August 1st, 2011

    Bombay Hook NWR and Taylor's Gut were full of shorebirds today. There were more than 700 American Avocets in Raymond but most of the
    Black-necked Stilts seemed to have moved on. Also, not all of the birds were close enough or in the right light for photo ops. Nevertheless, it was
    a fun day and here are some of the photos:

A Neat Odd Couple Of A Great Egret And A Great Blue Heron At Shearness

Adult Osprey Watches Over Offspring At Port Mahon Ditch

A First Year Osprey Perched At Port Mahon Ditch

A First Year Osprey Flies Off With A Tidbit At Port Mahon Ditch

First Year Osprey Circles Around With A Tidbit At Port Mahon Ditch

A Common Buckeye Butterfly At Bear Swamp

And A Monarch Butterfly At Bear Swamp

Female Orchard Oriole At Raymond

An Eastern Painted Turtle At Finis Pool

And A Snapping Turtle At Bear Swamp

First Year Double-crested Cormorant At Port Mahon Ditch

A Banded Ruddy Turnstone At Port Mahon Ditch

These Bands Have Been Reported To
The Natural Heritage & Endangered Species Program
Of The Delaware Division of Fish and Wildlife, DNREC

Species Seen Today:

Canada Goose	Lesser Yellowlegs	American Crow
American Black Duck	Spotted Sandpiper	Purple Martin
Double-crested Cormorant	Marbled Godwit	Tree Swallow
Great Blue Heron	Ruddy Turnstone	Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Great Egret	Sanderling	Barn Swallow
Snowy Egret	Semipalmated Sandpiper	Marsh Wren
Little Blue Heron	Western Sandpiper	American Robin
Tricolored Heron	Least Sandpiper	Gray Catbird
Glossy Ibis	Dunlin	Northern Mockingbird
Black Vulture	Stilt Sandpiper	European Starling
Turkey Vulture	Short-billed Dowitcher	Common Yellowthroat
Osprey	Laughing Gull	Blue Grosbeak
Bald Eagle	Herring Gull	Indigo Bunting
Northern Harrier	Great Black-backed Gull	Red-winged Blackbird
Semipalmated Plover	Caspian Tern	Orchard Oriole
Killdeer	Forster's Tern	American Goldfinch
Black-necked Stilt	Mourning Dove	Song Sparrow
American Avocets	Great Crested Flycatcher

To see a larger image of any of the photos below, please click on either the thumbnail or caption...thanks!


AmericanAvocetsFly AtRaymond	Forster'sTern AtTaylor'sGut	1stYearForster'sTern AtTaylor'sGut	LeastSandpiper AtPortMahonDitch	LesserYellowlegs AtPortMahonDitch

RuddyTurnstone AtPortMahonDitch	RuddyTurnstone2 AtPortMahonDitch	RuddyTurnstone3 AtPortMahonDitch	RuddyTurnstone4 AtPortMahonDitch	RuddyTurnstone5 AtPortMahonDitch

Sanderling AtPortMahonDitch	Sanderling2 AtPortMahonDitch	SemipalmatedPlover AtPortMahonDitch	SemipalmatedPlover2 AtPortMahonDitch	SemipalmatedPlover3 AtPortMahonDitch

Short-billedDowitcher AtPortMahonDitch	SpottedSandpiper AtBearSwamp	GreatBlueHeron AtShearness	GreatEgret AtShearness	FirstYearSnowyEgret AtShearness

FirstYearSnowyEgret2 AtShearness	FirstYearSnowyEgret3 AtShearness	GreatBlack-backedGull AtPortMahonDitch	JuvenileGrayCatbird AtBearSwamp	MonarchButterfly AtBearSwamp

FirstYearOsprey AtPortMahonDitch	FirstYearOsprey2 AtPortMahonDitch	AdultOspreys AtPortMahonDitch

� Howard B. Eskin 2011 Please email your comments to hbeskin@voicenet.com Please click here to go back to Bird Webpage Index