Sunday, March 20, 2011

Birding Bombay Hook NWR

On Saturday hubby and I drove to Delaware's Bombay Hook NWR. It is one of my favorite places for birding. We also wanted a good flat spot to see the Supermoon rise. We had a great day birding, we saw lots of ducks, three juvenile Eagles and one adult Bald Eagle. Since we stayed long enough to see the Supermoon rise and we also saw a beautiful sunset. These shots are all captured on my mosaic for Mary's Mosaic Monday.

Pictured below top left is the Northern Shoveler, on the top right are the Green Winged Teals, middle left is the juvenile Eagle, middle right is a tagged Snow Goose, bottom left are two GB Herons.


I love the colors on these Green-winged Teals.

Two juvenile eagles playing around


Bombay Hook sunset

The colorful Supermoon rising over Bombay Hook NWR



I hope you enjoyed my Bombay Hook photos and mosaic. Please visit Mary's Mosaic Monday to see more wonderful mosaics. Thanks to Mary for hosting and thanks for stopping by to see my post. I hope everyone has a wonderful week.

51 comments:

  1. Beautiful.I loved every image.I have had the privilege to see a Green-winged Teal on only a couple of occasions.What a beautiful bird!.
    Blessings,Ruth

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  2. What a beautiful sunset to be outdone by a gorgeous supermoon! I enjoyed looking at your wildlife pictures too. Nice collage!

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  3. We've been blessed to have some green-winged teals here last winter for a few days stopover with shovelers, ring-necks, and widgeons. They were wonderful! We get the blue-winged teals occasionally too!

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  4. Oh, how beautiful! Thanks for sharing your wonderful images at MM. :)

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  5. Beautiful captures Eileen. I love to see and take photos of birds. Happy Spring to you!

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  6. Absolutely beautiful!!! The sunset is just gorgeous!!! Have a grand week!

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  7. WOW! You had a great day out birding! And the supermoon sure was super. :))

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  8. Super mosaic, love the birding pics, and especially the moon! Fantastic! That last shot is breathtaking, what a color!

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  9. Fabulous photos. Enjoy the first day of spring:)

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  10. what a wonderful way to spend a day and a great place to be to see the moon. beautiful mosaics ... everything is stunning.

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  11. I had heard of sightings locally of the bald eagle. It has been almost lost to this area but is on the comback. I hope to see one of these majestic birds. V

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  12. What a great birding day! And your supermoon shot is beautiful. Mine didn't turn out very well, no color or perspective to shoot -- but it was fun watching it anyway.

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  13. Your mosaic is so beautiful and all the photos are fabulous. Thanks for sharing them!

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  14. What a beautiful day you enjoyed! Thank you for sharing it with us. The color on the ducks is pretty incredible. I'd love to have a scarf or something in those color combinations.

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  15. Super birds shots and moon!!!!

    Carolina Mts

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  16. Wonderful photos, Ellen! That does look like a wonderful birding spot. I saw the same wonderful orange perigee moon yesterday ...it was so beautiful!

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  17. Great images!! I'm a big fan of Bombay Hook

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  18. Wow Eileen, Seeing a gorgeous sunset and that Super Moon almost at the same time had to be a fabulous experience... Bet you were as excited as I would have been!!!!! Thanks for sharing the beauty.
    Hugs,
    Betsy

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  19. What a wonderful day you had, lots of lovely birds followed by a stunning sunset and the gorgeous Supermoon. You got some great photos Eileen, the last one is my favorite.

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  20. I wonder what the snow goose is doing by holding a plate labelled R7CE.

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  21. Beautiful and stunning photo's, a wonderful spot!
    http://yvettesblogs.com/2011/03/21/springtimes-laughter/

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  22. As a participant in Monday Mosaic this week I am doing some blog hopping and enjoying viewing all the beautiful contributions. What beauty the birds and the full moon have.

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  23. Some really nice images there Eileen especially the sun and moon, not to mention all those Green-winged Teal - a rarity over here

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  24. Gorgeous photos and mosaic as usual! Sounds like a wonderful time!!

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  25. A beautiful mosaic, and your sunset and moonrise photos are gorgeous!

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  26. Hi Eileen, Super moon, super pictures, super birds and waterfowl, and a super photographer! Have a very super evening and another equally super day tomorrow!

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  27. Absolutely wonderful series of photos, Eileen! Gorgeous sun set images!

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  28. Amazing photos! You got a great photo of the moon...wasn't it glorious? And we love bird watching! Yesterday we saw 3 eagles soaring together! We are always in awe! ♥

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  29. Beautiful pictures Eileen!! Loved the teals especially..

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  30. What a gorgeous shot of the moon!
    I love to visit the Esquimalt Lagoon to watch the waterfowl. You were lucky to see the two young eagles!

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  31. great mosaic and i love the orange moon. The header is fabulous too.

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  32. FANTASTIC! Looks like a wonderful place - and your pictures are magnificent!

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  33. Hi again Eileen, I was just now looking again at the blog post here and decided that you should print up that photo of the super moon rising that you have chosen as the header today. That particular photo would make a nice poster, wouldn't it? It would also make a nice note card. Wonderful! Have a really good day today!

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  34. I am going to say also that the sunset would be an equally nice picture to print with regard to a poster and card - sorry for the minor error in my last comment. Both are very very beautiful photos.

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  35. A superb collection of photos Eileen. This NWP sounds like a great place to spend some time. The rising moon photos were stunning, including your header shot.

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  36. Excellent photo coverage.
    I like your red super moon.

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  37. You find the best birds to photograph!!

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  38. Your mosaic is beautiful..the super moon is gorgeous!! I have a few I haven't uploaded but I doubt they came out nearly as nice..me and moon shots lately (sigh). Very lovely Eileen~

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  39. Your mosaic shows the best of nature, and so joyous to see!

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  40. It looks like you had a great day birdwatching and skywatching.

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  41. Like you, I love the colors on the green winged teal - handsome, delicate little duck.

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  42. Beautiful images Eileen. Bombay Hook must be a great place to visit. thanks for sharing.

    Seldom do the N shovlers & GW teal stray into the places I frequent; its nice to see that they are out there.

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  43. Great photos Eileen! And I really like the photo of the mooon.

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  44. You saw a wide assortment of birds and you saw a beautiful sunset to top it off.

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  45. Wonderful photos,Eileen!Thanks for sharing them!

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  46. Great photos, it looks like a beautiful place. I love all the birds.

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  47. Sunsets and birds! So beautiful. Love that header sunset.

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  48. the teals are really gorgeous. We have them but I never come close to them. Great shots all of them. :)

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