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Category: Birding Opportunities
March birding on Chincoteague is full of activity across marsh, forest, and shoreline. Positioned along the Atlantic Flyway, the island provides an important stopover for migrating birds as well as a home for many year-round residents. Each week brin… Read more
Birding with kids doesn’t have to look like quiet walks, perfect checklists, or long stretches of stillness. In fact, the best birding moments often happen when expectations are low and curiosity is allowed to lead the way. Here on Chincoteague, bird… Read more
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As December settles over the Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge transforms into a sanctuary of winter calm—wide-open skies, muted marsh colors, crisp air, and some of the best waterfowl birding of the entire year . N… Read more
You’d Never Expect to Hear these birds at The Refuge Inn, but we did! If you’ve stayed at The Refuge Inn, you may have noticed the soft chorus of island life that surrounds us: wrens calling from the pines, robins at dawn, and the chatter of grackles… Read more
Cool Birds of The Refuge Inn Our BirdWeather sensor records hundreds of feathered visitors each season — some familiar, others delightfully unexpected. From deep-forest travelers to ocean wanderers, these are a few of the coolest birds we’ve heard be… Read more
Around the first of September each year, the Tom’s Cove Hook reopens to walkers. On March 15 it closes again so migratory shorebirds can nest and raise their young on its flats. Here, the rhythm of the tides writes and rewrites the shoreline each day… Read more
October is the month the refuge changes over. The last warblers still move through the pines in the mornings, falcons hunt the edges of the marsh, and by the end of the month the first ducks and swans settle onto the water. Shorebirds thin out from t… Read more