We had a beautiful day for the first inaugural Delaware Goose-a-palooza this past Saturday the 27th. Thanks to the 30-40 birders who thoroughly inspected over 32,000 geese across the state, we all collectively turned up some impressive birds. Mixed among the expected Canada and Snow Geese were 14 CACKLING GEESE and 5 ROSS’S GEESE. The Snow Goose flocks in Kent County also produced multiple Snow … Read More
Northeast Goose Finding Tactics
With the Delaware Goose-a-palooza 2016 coming up this weekend, we’ve put together a short summary of the Northeast’s common and unusual goose species and also a few helpful links for participants. Remember that if you haven’t signed up for the event, please email Alan Kneidel and he can register you for a team and goose-searching territory. The objective for each team during the Goose-a-palooza is … Read More
White-winged Dove – Kent County, Delaware
This past Tuesday morning Brian McCaffrey spotted a White-winged Dove among the Mourning Doves in his Kent County, Delaware backyard! This is only the 8th record for the state of Delaware, and the 1st for Kent County. The dove remained in and around the yard, mostly sunning itself and trying to stay warm, at one point avoiding a hungry Cooper’s … Read More
Coastal Delaware Birding Blitz – November 15th, 2014
A Search for Rarities and Fall Migrants along the Delaware Bay and Seashore! The Coastal Delaware Birding Blitz (CDBB) will be held on November 15th, 2014. The main target area for the count is coastal habitat between Fowler Beach Road and Fenwick Island, with primary focus on scrub and marsh habitat, but the bay and ocean will not be neglected. This post … Read More
Weekend Digiscoping Spotlight 23
The Weekend Digiscoping Spotlight will highlight some of the fun shots we’ve gotten recently with a camera paired with a spotting scope or binoculars. We welcome submissions of your favorite digiscoped shots to be featured in future spotlights, just use the contact form in the menu above. Alex Lamoreaux and I worked coastal Sussex County in 25 – 30 mph … Read More
Coastal Delaware Birding Blitz
Derek Stoner is the Publicity and Outreach Coordinator for the Delmarva Ornithological Society. Â A past president of the organization, he is the co-founder of the Delaware Dunlins Youth Birders Club, a leader of the Delaware Bird-A-Thon, and an avid field birder who enjoys creating events that help to popularize birding and encourage the next generation of birder-conservationists. Delaware is … Read More
Rufous Hummingbird – Kent County, Delaware
Just as the last Ruby-throated Hummingbirds are beginning to make their way south for the winter, Rufous Hummingbirds and other rare western hummingbirds are beginning to show up at lucky homeowner’s feeders and well-planted backyards. With many scattered reports around the northeast so far this fall, Delaware birders like myself were anxiously awaiting a rare hummingbird to turn up in our small … Read More
Signing up for the DE RBA
If you’re going to be birding in Delaware or are wanting to chase rare birds in the state, then you should sign up for DE RBA for real-time updates as rare birds are found. I wanted to establish a DE RBA text alert system and encourage everyone to subscribe now so you don’t miss out on any reports of interesting birds. I also … Read More
Weekend Digiscoping Spotlight 20
The Weekend Digiscoping Spotlight will highlight some of the fun shots we’ve gotten recently with a camera paired with a spotting scope or binoculars. We welcome submissions of your favorite digiscoped shots to be featured in future spotlights, just use the contact form in the menu above. Laughing Gulls are the most numerous gull species in southern Delaware this time … Read More
A March Big Day in Delaware
Last Saturday, Nate Fronk, Alan Kneidel, and I made a run for the March Big Day record for Delaware. We decided that owling in the morning was pointless due to ~20mph winds, so we left Newark around 5:00 AM. After quick stops at Helen’s Sausage House and Wawa, we arrived at the Indian River Inlet shortly after sunrise. Our first … Read More