Scoters & Seals with Delmarva Birding

Join DC Bird Alliance with our friends at Delmarva Birding Weekends for a 2.5-hour cruise of the waters around the mouth of the Delaware Bay aboard the Thelma Dale V. The boat features a heated cabin, benches along the lower deck rail, and a top deck for open-air viewing. We will visit the two stone breakwaters and the ice breakers in search of common and rare waterfowl and seabirds including gulls, cormorants, gannets, loons, scoters, eiders and with luck a White-winged Scoter or Razorbill. We also have a good chance of seeing Harbor and Gray Seals that regularly haul out on the rocks. Restrooms are available on board, and coolers are welcome!

We coordinate these cruises with low tide, which will offer better views of the seals hauled out on the lower breakwater rocks.

We had a great time birding on the Delaware Bay last winter. Check out these eBird lists from our 2025 cruises:

• Jan. 31, 2025:
• Feb. 1, 2025:
• March 15, 2025:

Harbor and Gray Seal photos courtesy of Sherry Abbott.

Black Scoter photo courtesy of Dr. Frode Jacobsen

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