Saturday's Critters # 509

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These are photos from our Aug 16-17th overnight trip to Bombay Hook NWR and Dover Delaware.  After our 2 and 1/2 hour drive we arrived at the Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge. It will always be one of my favorite places to see the birds. These are the birds I saw on the first day, we saw a family of Wild Turkeys, lots of Snowy and Great Egrets, Great Blue Herons, Glossy Ibis, American Avocets, Osprey and various shorebirds like the Dunlin, Dowitchers, Yellowlegs, Semipalmated Plovers and Sandpipers, Willets, Black Bellied Plovers and Mute Swans. 

1. Below in the mosaic, top row is a family of Wild Turkeys, American Avocets and a guess at a Yellowlegs. Second row are the Snowy Egret and Great Egrets, Long-billed and Short Billed Dowitchers with a Black-bellied Plover, more Egrets with American Avocets and more shorebirds. Bottom row an Egret, Great Blue Heron and Canada Geese with Willets.

2. Forster's Tern, Semipalmated Plover, Caspian Tern with Gulls and Terns. Middle row is an Osprey, Swallows and Mute Swans. Bottom row is a Mute Swan, Egrets and Egrets with Glossy Ibis.

3. Below are various images of the American Avocets, various shorebirds, Osprey Egrets with Glossy Ibis.

4. The American Avocets, a pretty shorebird has black and white wings, the breeding adult can have the burnt orange head. 

5. The Great Egrets with the yellow bill mixed in with the group of Snowy Egrets.

6. Below is a mix of shorebirds, Great and Snowy Egrets and the American Avocets. 

7. There is one Black-belled Plover mixed with Dowitchers and possibly other shorebirds. 

8.  More of the attractive American Avocets.

 

9. A mix of Terns, Gulls and I see the Semipalmated Plover. 

10. We saw a few Osprey perched in trees around the refuge. 

11. This Mute Swan was giving me a look, all my photos were taken from my car window. 

12. Snowy Egrets with a Glossy Ibis. 

13. A view of the pool with various Egrets and more American Avocets. 

14.  Taken off the Glossy Ibis, Terns and shorebirds. The Canada Geese were settled on the ground.

15. A young fox was walking by our car. 

I hope you enjoyed these photos from the Bombay Hook NWR . 

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