Date: 5/21/25 7:10 am From: m b <marlabeth...> Subject: [de-birds] Slaughter beach question - no sighting
I was wondering if anybody's been seeing lots of shorebirds at Slaughter beach. I only had a chance to go May 12th, and although the tide was incoming, I was closer to Mid tide. I didn't really see much. Tomorrow I have to leave Delaware, and I can either take the southern route and go to Redden state forest and Blackwater, looking for Delmarva fox squirrels and whatever remnants of warbler migration there might be.
Or I can take the northern route, and go back to Slaughter beach again, in hopes of maybe seeing some shorebirds. If anyone's been seeing lots of shorebirds at Slaughter Beach at a higher tide, I would love to know.
Thanks everyone! And thank you everyone for answering my "could I possibly have seen a falcon on the boardwalk at bethany" question.
By the way, yesterday afternoon there was a blue grosbeak in the beach grass on the dunes at bethany. It's quite usual for me to see them over at Bethany Nature Center on 26, but I've never seen one on the beach before. It's been a very interesting trip! Two different whales, two weeks apart, both breaching, some kind of falcon on the boardwalk, a blue grosbeak in the dunes!
Happy birding
Mb visiting Delaware
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