The croaking of frogs and toads newly awakened from their long winter’s nap and eagerly looking for love are the soundtrack for a Chincoteague Island Vacation in the Spring.
Piping Plovers dance their ritual dance in a springtime hoe down in springtime as well.. These endangered birds arrive at the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge to nest, but first perform some astoundingly intricate courtship displays before choosing their mates and raising their families over the course of the summer.
If the spring air on Chincoteague Island has a proprietary perfume, it’s the scent of wisteria blooms mingled with the fragrance of salt air. The soft blue cascades of wisteria make a perfect backdrop for the dazzling yellows of the daffodils at the Chincoteague’s Center annual Daffodil Festival in early April, when dozens of Eastern Shore crafters and artists display their finest creations and the bloom filled grounds surrounding the Chincoteague Center are inhabited by flower, home and garden exhibitors of every conceivable style and stripe.
Attention turns from the water to the sky with Chincoteague’s annual International Migratory Bird Celebration, held at the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge on Assateague Island.  During the spring thousands of shorebirds arrive at the Wildlife Refuge to rest on their journey along the Atlantic Flyway as they migrate to their nesting grounds further south. The Celebration features lectures, workshops, and bird-viewing hikes with avian experts.
Assateague Bus Tour Service resumes on weekends at the Bateman Visitor Center weekends in March and April, and is expanded to include Fridays during May. This  two-hour tour (fortunately, this is Assateague, and not Gilligan’s Island) makes a loop of the Wildlife Refuge, and you may catch a few glimpses of the Chincoteague pony herd. A large number of foals are born to the herd in early spring.
The Assateague Lighthouse is open for climbing on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays with the last climb beginning at 2:30. The Lighthouse is not only an important piece of Chincoteague and Assateague history; it’s the tallest structure around and a great place to get a view of the islands and surrounding waters.
Low hotel rates, smaller crowds, fresh air, flowers abundant wildlife and no mosquitoes all are hallmarks of Chincoteague Island in the Springtime, the perfect time of the year for a Chincoteague Island Vacation.
The author giver his permission for the use of this article, as long as the resource box and web link below are included with the article.
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The author, Sam Serio, is the promoter of the Chincoteague Daffodil Festival. For more information and to pick-up the FREE e-book “Daffodil Secrets Revealed,” please visit http://www.ChincoteagueDaffodilFestival.com
