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.

Viewing Eagles at the Susquehanna and Conowingo

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The Bald Eagle at the Susquehanna River



The Susquehanna River below the Conowingo Dam is a the best place I know to see the Bald Eagles. Usually I can see the Eagles there year round, not as many are there in summer but the counts goes way up in the winter months. There was one time last year the count was around 175. The most I have ever seen an estimated amount of 125 and it was the last weekend in November, 2008. I am hoping to be able to see the same this year.




I guess the Bald Eagle can be considered a critter too? For more Camera-Critters # 75click on my camera critter link.





The Eagles can be seen flying up and down the river, they are great to see fishing. They sit in the trees above the parking lot. The juveniles are fun to watch chasing each and the sounds they make are just wonderful.





The juvenile eagles will chase each try to to steal each others fish, we have seen the juveniles and the adults in the trees eating the fish they caught.




The Susquehanna river is the one place I know where you can view and compare the juveniles at their different stages of reaching their adult plumage.






Osprey are also at the river and build their nest in the towers seen in the river. The Osprey are another bird I like to watch fish, they are just awesome.





There is also a Great Blue Heron rookery in the trees along the shore of the river. There have been times we have seen hundreds of Great Blue Herons.

The Great Blue Heron, this photo only shows a small part of all the GB Herons that were there the day of our visit.



Cormorants, this picture only shows a small section of Cormorants that were there.





On another visit we have seen probably a thousand Cormorants and during another visit there were tens of thousand Seagulls.
It was the most amazing sight and the most gulls I have ever seen. It was like a white-out, so many gulls flying around us.







The Baltimore Orioles have been know to nest in the trees along the river. I have the seen the Baltimore Orioles in the treetops along the river and the walking trail. And in the spring you can see breeding warblers and other warblers resting during their journey north. In the spring you can walk on the trail that follows along the river and see many different wildflowers and butterflies.