{"id":14372,"date":"2021-04-15T10:02:33","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T14:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mlra.org\/Prototype\/Birders\/?p=14372"},"modified":"2021-04-15T13:29:36","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T17:29:36","slug":"bombay-hook-april-14-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlra.org\/MLBirders\/bombay-hook-april-14-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Bombay Hook, April 14, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Our highly anticipated trip to Bombay Hook didn’t turn out quite as planned. We had hoped to add Brown-headed Nuthatch to our trip list, and had contacted a Delaware expert for advice and directions. But something went wrong, and the little birds were nowhere to be found on Big Stone Beach Road south of Frederica, Del. We did see close-up Bald Eagles, Ospreys, and a few lingering Red-breasted Mergansers off the beach.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Something else went wrong, as well.\u00a0 Wednesday was supposed to be clear. It was hazy and bright at the beach, but by the time we reached the Bombay Hook NWR, the sky was gray and threatening. The amazing Purple Martin colony at the headquarters was crowded and busy, but few other land birds appeared. When we reached the first pool we were delighted with the flock of 70 Avocets, but more kept arriving! By the time we left, there were nearly 300. Big flocks of Dunlin were circling in synchronized flight,\u00a0 a thrill to see. More eagles and plenty of Great Egrets and Great Blue Herons were also in the pool; but we had to continue further along the auto tour before finding even one Snowy Egret. Sparrows and other small birds remained invisible, and we remained in the car due to the rain. Still, we were quite pleased with our list for the day.<\/p>

Participants<\/strong>:\u00a0 Ethel Cebra, Holly Hoffman, Robert Koch, Laurie Larson<\/p>

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Bird list:<\/strong>
64 species<\/p>

Snow Goose
Canada Goose
Mute Swan
Wood Duck
Northern Shoveler
Gadwall
Mallard
American Black Duck
Green-winged Teal
Red-breasted Merganser
Wild Turkey
Pied-billed Grebe
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
American Avocet
Black-bellied Plover
Killdeer
Dunlin
Least Sandpiper
Lesser Yellowlegs
Greater Yellowlegs
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Caspian Tern
Forster’s Tern
Common Loon
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Cooper’s Hawk
Bald Eagle
Red-tailed Hawk
American Kestrel
Peregrine Falcon
American Crow
Fish Crow
Tree Swallow
Purple Martin
Barn Swallow
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
House Wren
Carolina Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet
American Robin
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
House Sparrow
House Finch
American Goldfinch
Chipping Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
Eastern Towhee
Red-winged Blackbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
Common Grackle
Common Yellowthroat
Yellow-rumped Warbler
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Our highly anticipated trip to Bombay Hook didn’t turn out quite as expected. We had hoped to see Brown-headed Nuthatch, but something went wrong, and the little bird was nowhere to be found on Big Stone Beach Road south of Frederica, Del.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":14398,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-field-trips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlra.org\/MLBirders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlra.org\/MLBirders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlra.org\/MLBirders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlra.org\/MLBirders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlra.org\/MLBirders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14372"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mlra.org\/MLBirders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14406,"href":"https:\/\/mlra.org\/MLBirders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14372\/revisions\/14406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlra.org\/MLBirders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlra.org\/MLBirders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlra.org\/MLBirders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlra.org\/MLBirders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}