Today the family decided to bird some around the lake area. We hit the Nature Trail below Canyon Lake Dam and then our subdivision cove that looks at Comal Park. Nice day for birding. Our list for a couple of hours of looking: Canyon Dam Nature Trail- Wood Ducks- at least 20 - Males and Females Gadwall - 10 Mallards - 3 Muscovy Duck - 2 Great Egret -1 Turkey Vulture - 50 + in a kettle overhead Black Vulture Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 Spotted Sandpiper -1 White-winged Dove -15 Belted Kingfisher -1 Golden-fronted Woodpecker -4 Downy Woodpecker -1 Red-bellied Woodpecker -1 Black-crested Titmouse - 20 Carolina Chickadee -15 Brown Creeper -2 Carolina Wren - 5 Bewick’s Wren -1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet -7 Eastern Bluebird - 8 (by the ball fields) Swainson’s Thrush -1 Northern Mockingbird -3 Orange-crowned Warbler -2 Yellow-rumped Warbler - 5 ( both Audubon and Myrtle) Northern Cardinal -10 American Goldfinch -6 ( by trail on upper bank) At the cove next to Comal Park- Bufflehead -3 Redhead - 25 Mallard - 5 Ruddy Duck -1 Lesser Scaup - 8 Gadwall - 10 Cormorant sp -1 Pied-billed Grebe -2 House Finch -2 Great Blue Heron -1 American Kestrel -1 White-winged Dove - 7 Killdeer - 3 Ed Hickl & family Houston and Canyon Lake, Texas Edit your Freelists account settings for TEXBIRDS at //www.freelists.org/list/texbirds Reposting of traffic from TEXBIRDS is prohibited without seeking permission from the List Owner