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GOING BIRDING?
A monthly guide of where to go birding
in the Delaware Valley Birding Region
(What is the "Delaware Valley Region?")
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We are blessed to have so many outstanding locations within a 90 mile radius or two hour drive of Philadelphia – this area being loosely known as the Delaware Valley. Immediately, National Wildlife Refuges sites such as Edwin Forsythe aka Brigantine, Bombay Hook and John Heinz aka Tinicum come to mind, not to mention the whole Cape May area; numerous forests, preserves, state and county parks; reservoirs, rivers, bays and coastal marshes and sandy beaches; hawk and sea watches; nature centers and nature parks along with a plethora of other smaller patches that are highly desirable birding spots.
This BIRDING BY MONTH section provides suggestions on particular birding location during certain months, should you want to go out birding or to look for a certain target species. While a number of these sites could be birded with success at almost any time of year, we have made an effort not to repeat ourselves too often and in certain cases just mentioned what a particular location has to offer at that time of year.
As a generalization:
Using this in conjunction with updated reports from the
excellent weekly Delaware Valley
Rare Birding Alert will certainly help you pick a location at any time
of year and possibly even get you a new bird!
BIRDING BY MONTH
The Delaware Valley Birding Region is roughly defined as a circle, 150 miles in diameter, centered on Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It includes all or parts of the following counties:
In Pennsylvania;
Berks County, Bucks
County, Chester County, Delaware
County, Lancaster County,
Lebanon County, Lehigh
County, Montgomery County,
Northampton County
and Philadelphia County.
In New Jersey;
Atlantic County, Burlington
County, Camden County, Cape
May County, Cumberland County,
Gloucester County, Hunterdon
County, Mercer County, Middlesex
County, Monmouth County, Ocean
County, Salem County, Somerset
County and Warren County.
In Delaware;
New Castle County, Kent
County and Sussex County