Some of the things I have seen this past week at Foulkeways.
The daisy fleabane is in the meadow And the wetlands.
This blue iris was in the wetland.
As was this yellow iris.
The tradescantia is in the meadow.
The ox-eye daisies are blooming in the front meadow and the back of the wetland.
The zizia blooms in all places and I even have one in my garden.
The mallards are in the wetland.
Nearby this plant is blooming.
This white flower blooms on the bank.
A Peck's skipper flying near the wetland.
This white-tailed dragonfly posed for a photo.
This Dames rocket is on the edge of the woods.
And this deer was just into the woods.
A final treat was a boat trip through the marshlands behind Wildwood on the Osprey.
The osprey have become so abundant here that they nest on platforms, as you see here, and there are even osprey nesting on the ground.
A great egret and a snowy egret.
A black-backed gull.
Dunlin in their breeding plumage.
Black-bellied plovers with black bellies!
We were seeing one of the largest areas of nesting laughing gulls.
An oystercatcher in the middle of all the nesting gulls.
In the morning on the Red Trail we had seen this American robin.
A magnolia warbler.
A mother swan and cygnet - the father was busy chasing away some Canada geese.
On the way home we saw the brown thrasher again.
As the sun sets we say good-bye, but we shall return in October.
Our leader, Mark Garland at Higbee Beach.
We got good looks at the eastern kingbird.
The indigo bunting was singing high in a tree.
We found this oystercatcher on the beach at the meadows.
Short-billed dowitcher.
Least sandpiper. Yellowish legs and browner than semi-palm.
Semi-palmated sandpiper.
Flock of glossy ibis flying.
Muskrat.
Little blue heron.
Snowy egret.
Box turtle seen on the Red Trail.
Lighthouse.
The trip highlight, a trip to Delaware Bay beaches.
Laughing gull in the middle of the mob at high tide.
There is a feeding frenzy.
Red Knot.
Horseshoe crabs.
Underside of horseshoe crab.
Horseshoe crab eggs.
Red knot flock flying.
Sanderling.
Ruddy turnstone.
A parting treat was this seaside sparrow.
