Despite cloudy, breezy, and windy conditions, birding was decent at the refuge today at our four stops. Upon arrival, a male ruby-throated hummingbird was on the red flowers by the volunteer shed at the visitor’s center. Other birds identified in this area included chipping sparrow, …
We birded in seven areas of the refuge. The Bear Swamp Pool was closed due to a fox with kits. A few birds we identified by the Visitor’s Center were common yellowthroat, purple martin, American goldfinch, and red-bellied woodpecker. Next, we walked the Raymond Pool …
We started at the end of the parking lot and mainly walked around the lake and primitive camping area loop. We got a good look at a Swainson’s hawk that flew over us. There were very few birds on the lake, and we only saw …
We birded the trail on the west side of the park along the west side of South Pleasant Valley Road from the dam to across the Oracle building. It was cloudy and windy but we managed to identify these birds: great-tailed grackle, white-winged dove, northern …
After Roy Guerrero Park, we drove to Pond 2 in the Hornsby Bend water treatment plant and walked along part of that pond. Some of the birds we identified there included northern shoveler, eared grebe, American coot, ruddy duck, and blue-winged teal. After that, we …
The first park we went to on our Texas trip was Bob Wentz at Windy Point Park. We first birded in the main area where the road ends at the point parking lot, then we walked down to the point area along Lake Travis. Birds …
I went on a field trip to Gordon’s Pond Trail southside with the Sussex Bird Club. Before hitting the trail, we went to the beach for a quick look and saw double-crested cormorant, common loon, red-throated loon, and northern gannet. Along the trail at the …
We covered two areas of the park. First, we took the north part of Gordon’s Pond trail from the parking lot to Bench 5. Birds we saw along this trail included northern cardinal, dark-eyed junco, pine warbler, eastern bluebird, yellow-rumped warbler, osprey, killdeer, great blue …
We walked our usual two trails through the preserve. First, we took the Red Trail to the beach and back. Some of the 31 birds we identified along this trail were eastern bluebird, cedar waxwing, eastern towhee, tufted titmouse, osprey (first one this year locally), …
In the Visitor’s Center area, we heard more birds than we saw. Some of the birds we identified included red-shouldered hawk, Carolina wren, northern flicker, song sparrow, swamp sparrow, and red-winged blackbird. The Dike Trail was fairly active. Birds we identified there included brown-headed cowbird, …
