Wed, 5:45 am: The Field Trip is a GO. Fog looks to be the only weather issue. Dress warmly, as we will have a cool east wind.
Chance of rain looks limited, so I feel confident we have a GO. Check this blog just after 6 am in case NOAA is totally wrong with this evening's forecast for Mispillion Inlet:
We will meet at Prime Hook NWR Headquarters at 8am to car pool to Mispillion. If you wish to go directly to Mispillion on you own, please email me or Sally.
Do bring a rain repellent jacket, and be assured that at Mispillion we have some shelter outdoors, and and an indoor retreat with good Horseshoe Crab/Red Knot videos. Now per their web site, they do not open the Nature Center until 10 am, but they like me and Sally, so maybe earlier for our group. With all the recent heavy rains, mosquitoes are out in "swarms" so long pants and long sleeves are also recommended.
This is a highlight trip for us every year. Horseshoe Crabs date back to well before the age of dinosaurs, and Red Knots typically migrate over 9,000 miles a year from southern South America to the Arctic, stopping in the Delaware Bay to refuel on Horseshoe Crab eggs.
Links:
http://myfwc.com/research/saltwater/crustaceans/horseshoe-crabs/facts/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_knot
Cape Henlopen about 1985
Chance of rain looks limited, so I feel confident we have a GO. Check this blog just after 6 am in case NOAA is totally wrong with this evening's forecast for Mispillion Inlet:
Wednesday
A
slight chance of showers, with thunderstorms also possible after noon.
Patchy fog before 10am. Otherwise, cloudy, with a high near 75. East
wind 10 to 14 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
We will meet at Prime Hook NWR Headquarters at 8am to car pool to Mispillion. If you wish to go directly to Mispillion on you own, please email me or Sally.
Do bring a rain repellent jacket, and be assured that at Mispillion we have some shelter outdoors, and and an indoor retreat with good Horseshoe Crab/Red Knot videos. Now per their web site, they do not open the Nature Center until 10 am, but they like me and Sally, so maybe earlier for our group. With all the recent heavy rains, mosquitoes are out in "swarms" so long pants and long sleeves are also recommended.
This is a highlight trip for us every year. Horseshoe Crabs date back to well before the age of dinosaurs, and Red Knots typically migrate over 9,000 miles a year from southern South America to the Arctic, stopping in the Delaware Bay to refuel on Horseshoe Crab eggs.
Links:
http://myfwc.com/research/saltwater/crustaceans/horseshoe-crabs/facts/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_knot
Cape Henlopen about 1985
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