Friday, May 28, 2010

May 29 - Belleplain & Heislerville

Out today with guys that force me listen hard in order to understand my native English...a visiting UK birder in Simon K., and a now resident Scotsman in Bill E.
We took the long ride down to the Delaware Bayshore areas in hopes of some uncommon shorebirds & the breeding specialties of Belleplain Forest. While we did not encounter any rarities at Heiserville we did enjoy the shorebirds, including a breeding plumaged White-Rumped Sandpiper.

At Belleplain we saw some life birds for Simon in the Acadian Flycatcher, Blue Grosbeak and Summer Tanager.
credit: http://www.westsidercd.org/Images/Blue-Grosbeak.jpg

credit: http://people.esam.northwestern.edu/~gbrown/images/tanager.jpg