Important Notices
| COVID-19 & the VBWTBefore heading out to visit a site on the Virginia Bird & Wildlife Trail, be sure to check if that site has any COVID-19 policies or closures in place. This information is typically posted on a site's own website. |
Sites On This Loop
- CES01: Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel
- CES02: Eastern Shore of Virginia National Wildlife Refuge
- CES03: Magothy Bay Natural Area Preserve
- CES04: Mockhorn Island Wildlife Management Area
- CES05: Kiptopeke State Park
- CES06: Custis Tombs
- CES07: Cape Charles Natural Area Preserve
- CES08: Cape Charles Beach and Harbor
- CES09: Savage Neck Dunes Natural Area Preserve
- CES09A: Edward S. Brinkley Nature Preserve
- CES10: Seaview Farm
- CES11: Indiantown Park
- CES12: Brownsville Preserve
- CES13: Willis Wharf
- CES14: Wachapreague Interpreted Marsh View
- CES15: Harborton Landing
- CES16: Tangier Island and Onancock Wharf
- CES17: Mutton Hunk Fen Natural Area Preserve
- CES18: Gargatha Landing
- CES19: Guard Shore Tract, Saxis Wildlife Management Area
- CES20: Free School Marsh & Michael Marsh Tracts, Saxis Wildlife Management Area
- CES21: Queen Sound Landing
- CES22: Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge
Description
Watching wildlife on the Eastern Shore is to experience some of the best wildlife habitat on the Eastern Seaboard of the United States. Located a few short hours from several metropolitan centers, this tip of the Delmarva Peninsula, flanked by the Atlantic Ocean and the Chesapeake Bay, is bucolic, friendly, and rife with natural habitat. The seaside of the peninsula is an intricate mosaic of barrier islands, all of which have been protected from development allowing nature to thrive accordingly. The bayside is indented with countless estuaries and tidal mudflats that, during migrations, can be teaming with shorebirds. Pockets of deciduous woodlands provide critical stopover points for migrating songbirds, and the peninsula catches tremendous numbers of raptors that follow the coast on their fall migration flight. The Eastern Shore Loop includes world-class wildlife watching at Chincoteague at its northern end, and world-class venues like the Eastern Shore of Virginia National Wildlife Refuge, Kiptopeke State Park, and the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel at its southern end. In between, are a plethora of sites to see a great variety of wildlife.
Loop Map
Services
Northampton County Chamber of Commerce
757-678-0010
chamber@
Cape Charles By the Bay
CapeCharlesByTheBay@gmail.com
Chincoteague Chamber of Commerce
757-336-6161
chincochamber@verizon.net
Southeast Expeditions
757-331-6190
Info@SouthEastExpeditions.com
Eastern Shore of Virginia Chamber of Commerce
757-787-2460
rrulon@esva.net
Eastern Shore of Virginia Tourism Commission
757-787-8268
tourism@esvatourism.org
Bay Haven Inn of Cape Charles
757-331-2838
info@bayhaveninnbnb.com