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, …
We made five stops in the refuge. Near the refuge’s new visitor center that just opened a few days ago, we identified turkey vulture, red-winged blackbird, Carolina wren, blue jay, and Canada goose. Our next stop was Raymond Pool. Some of the birds we saw …
We saw two snow geese and four buffleheads in the water very close to the parking lot. More distant birds included tundra swan and American black duck. Along the path to the beach, we saw great blue heron, bald eagle, and northern harrier. We saw …
We covered two areas of the park. The first was in the East Launch area and we walked along the lake’s edge up to the woods. Birds we identified here included common merganser, bufflehead, belted kingfisher, song sparrow, greater scaup, downy woodpecker, eastern bluebird, great …
We first walked the trail to the beach. There were at least 5,000 snow geese on the water and probably more. Some of them came ashore. One ring-billed gull was eating a fish by the shoreline. Back in the parking lot area, we saw several …
