Ocean City Inlet & Heron Park Field Trip
/The last of our Delmarva Birding field trips started at the Ocean City Inlet…where the high point was seeing an American Oystercatcher fly in and land on the rocks for a short walk.
The next stop was Heron Pond – an area in Berlin, MD that is in an industrial area and on the site of an old chicken processing plant. There are a series of ponds that clean water and provide habitat for water birds. The highway is nearby but there is a screen of vegetation…and there are birds on all the ponds. Some of the first birds we saw were cormorants.
Followed in close succession by ruddy ducks (the males have blue bills!) and northern shovelers.
Two northern shovelers were feeding together…swimming in a tight circle.
The last pond has structures on its surface to filter water and those structures provide a haven for turtles and birds. There were several Canada geese on nests and a little blue heron finding a snack!
And that was the finale for our 4 field trips with Delmarva Birding.
