OVERALL
We will focus on bird migration in the fall, bird identification, local birding hotspots, some travel birding hotspots, and we will visit up to 4 local hotspots. The latter is of course weather dependent.
Since some of you may live closer to a field trip destination than to OLLI Lewes, we can plan to meet you at the field trip destination. This will require some coordination in the class one week before the field trip, or via email.
For the field trips, be sure to bring binoculars, a field guide, insect repellent, water and a snack, water resistant wind breaker, and a DE park sticker/pass if you are driving into Cape Henlopen or Indian River Inlet State Parks.
WEATHER PLANNING
We will not do a field trip if the weather is rainy or stormy. You can check our tentative weather plans at 6 am on the day of the field trip by logging in to: https://billfintel.blogspot.com/ If a field trip is cancelled due to weather, we will still do an indoor class of approximately 1 hour.
CLASS OUTLINE
Class 1 - The first hour will definitely be at OLLI Lewes. This first hour will be an orientation and question/answer session re the next 4 classes. Program options will be presented for class input, so programs for the next 4 classes are right now open pending your input. The field trip this day will be to Cape Henlopen.
Class 2 - Field trip to Prime Hook NWR. This is an excellent location for migrating shorebirds and waterfowl, both of which will be on the move.
Class 3 - Our field trip will include the Fintel’s yard, plantings, feeders and water features. After that we will visit Oyster Rocks Road and the Lewes Great Marsh
Class 4 - Our field trip destination is Indian River Inlet and surrounding dune habitat. If this and all previous field trips have been a “GO”, we will have a discussion on where you would like to go in Class 5.
Class 5 - Our field trip will be any previous location we got “weathered out of visiting”, OR the decision made in Class 4.
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