Wild Delaware

Snow geese, in numbers too large to count, are here now taking up their winter residence on the salt marshes along the Delaware Bay. Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge near Leipsic and Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge near Lewes provide thousands of acres of habitat and nearby freshly harvested fields provide plenty of food.

And this morning I found a lesser yellowlegs feeding along the edge of the snow goose-filled pothole.

I went back today at sunset to check on the same salt marsh pothole that was filled with snow geese this morning and there wasn’t a goose in sight. But there was a red fox…

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