Scoters & Seals (Lewes Boat Tour)

Our DBW guides and the Captain and Crew of the Thelma Dale IV are very excited about the winter birding season ahead with our friends at the Dogfish INN and Dogfish Head! We’ve been running these exciting winter trips since 2016, but we’ve never hosted a “Scoters & Seals” cruise as early as January 6.

We need 30 participants for this boat trip to go. If you are interested, please email us at dmvbirds@gmail.com with your name and the number in your party. If we reach our 30-person minimum, we’ll open registration.

If the trip goes: we'll enjoy a two-hour cruise of the waters around the mouth of the Delaware Bay aboard the Thelma Dale IV. 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 Harlequin Duck 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 are coordinating the boat trip with low tide, which will offer better views of the seals hauled out on the lower breakwater rocks. Low tide for Lewes on January 6 is 10:15 am.