Bird Watching in Delaware
Migratory birds flock to Delaware's coastline, ponds and protected wildlife areas. Delaware is on the Atlantic flyway for migratory birds migrating from Canada to the gulf of Mexico. On Pea Patch Island hike along a trail to an observation deck and observe egrets, ibises and herons nesting in one of the largest wading bird nesting areas on the East Coast.
South of Dover, observe birds at the Delaware National Estuarine Research Reserve or otherwise known as the St. Jones Reserve). Here is a boardwalk you can watch rails from. At Milford Neck, near Milford observe brown headed nuthatches.
At the Ted Harvey Wildlife area watch waterfowl from an observation tower or a boardwalk.
The Bombay Hook wildlife refuge located near Smyrna is another prime habitat for migrating geese, ducks and other species of birds.
Near Milton, find coastal wetlands, grasslands and croplands in the Prime Hook refuge, a good place to spot wild turkeys, migrating ducks, geesse and shorebirds.
See nesting osprey, the American bald eagle and the piping plover at Gordon's Pond at Cape Henlopen. In Fenwick Island State Park, see tern, black skimmer and gulls.
In Trap Pond State Park in the vacinity of Cypress Swamp, see hummingbirds, warblers, bald eagles and owls.
Edward H. McCabe Nature preserve has tidal marsh, swamp forest and upland forest with more than 100 species of birds to discover.
The entire state of Delaware is a bird watchers paradise offering oppotunities to spot hundreds of species of shorebirds and other wild birds.