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  • Evening Saw-whet Owl Banding at Rushton Woods

    A visit to Rushton Woods owl banding for adults! Join the banding crew at Rushton Woods Preserve as they work to catch and band Northern Saw-whet Owls to help researchers discover more about their amazing annual movements and unique nocturnal adaptations. Participants will learn about the research being done, the techniques used and the value ... Read more

  • Youth Birders: Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge

    Blue-winged Teal by Michael Moore This trip is all about sharing our love of birds with friends! We are teaming up with enthusiasticyouth birder Quentin Durden for a morning of exploration and excitement at Bombay HookNational Wildlife Refuge. Instead of searching for a specific group of birds, our goal is to enjoywhichever birds choose to ... Read more

  • Sea Watch with Chris Bennett & Anthony Gonzon

    Brant by Carolyn Holland Join Anthony and Chris for a brisk birding adventure at the Indian River Inlet! To be enjoyed at the Southside Day Use Area. Come prepared for cold conditions and the seashore wind and bring your scope if you have one. Participants should monitor the DOS website and social media for last ... Read more

  • Anson B. Nixon Park with Ian Stewart ***Note change of date from 10/24***

    Explore this under-birded park to see what species we might find! Anson B. Nixon park (www.ansonbnixonpark.org) is an attractive 100 acre site owned by the Kennett Area Park Authority. It contains two small lakes and a mix of woodland and dense forest with creeks. It is free to enter, there is ample parking and the ... Read more

  • Alapocas Run State Park with Joe Francis

    Golden-crowned Kinglet by Carolyn Holland Explore Alapocas Woods Visit an oasis within the city of Wilmington with good successional field habitat, mature woodlands and the Brandywine River. We will walk about 3 miles on very accessible trails. Construction along the Brandywine is completed so this should be a much more productive walk than what we ... Read more

  • DOS November Meeting: “Birds Up Close – Fantastic Feathers, Form and Function” by Professor Lorna Gison, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Delaware Museum of Nature and Science 4840 Kennet Pike, Greenville, Delaware, United States

    Summary: Lorna Gibson’s new book, Birds Up Close: An Engineer Explores Their Hidden Wonders, draws on her experience as a professor of engineering at MIT and as a lifelong birder, to describe how birds work from an engineering perspective. Feathers, bones, bills, eggs, flight: all come in for scrutiny, sometimes at the microscopic scale, sometimes at a more ... Read more

  • Delaware Bayshore: Pickering Beach to Port Mahon with Anthony Gonzon

    Sunset along Port Mahon Road by Chris Bennett Spend the afternoon on the Delaware Bay! The Delaware Bay and the public lands along its shores attract a wide range of migrant and winter resident birds.  We will start the trip at the Main Tract of Little Creek Wildlife area looking for forest songbirds, raptors and ... Read more

  • Youth Birders: Wilmington Christmas Bird Count at Alapocas Run State Park

    Join us for the 127th year of this community science project! Starting at the Blue Ball Barn, we will count all of the birds seen and heard to help track continent-wide trends in bird diversity and abundance. The data collected is used by scientists working to protect bird habitats and populations. Please RSVP to Jessica ... Read more

  • Winter Trip to Brigantine & Barnegat with Andy Ednie

    Harlequin Duck by David Lewis Winter birding in New Jersey! Join Andy for an all day trip to Brigantine and Barnegat. We'll leave from the Claymont Train Station at 6:30 am to drive to Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge. Will arrive at Forsythe around 8 am and drive the auto tour (National Wildlife Refuge pass required ... Read more

  • Raptors in Winter with Jim White

    Merlin by Carolyn Holland A quest for Raptors in Winter! A full day quest for raptors that may be found in our area during the winter months. We will visit several areas in Delaware and while we will include owls in our search, no tape recordings will be used to call them in.  Bring snacks, ... Read more

  • Sea Watch II with Chris Bennett & Anthony Gonzon

    Brant by Carolyn Holland Another chance to join Anthony and Chris for a brisk birding adventure at the Indian River Inlet! To be enjoyed at the Southside Day Use Area. Come prepared for cold conditions and the seashore wind and bring your scope if you have one. Participants should monitor the DOS website and social ... Read more

  • First State National Historical Park – Brandywine Valley with Declan O’Neil

    Blackburnian Warbler by Declan O'Neil Explore the Brandywine Valley Tract of First State National Historical Park, a lesser-known gem of northern New Castle County. With spring in full swing, we’ll be looking and listening for migrating warblers on our walk along the Brandywine Creek, in addition to vireos, thrushes, sparrows and anything else migration has ... Read more