Another beautiful morning for birding. First I tried Dance Road (the trail from the horse trailer parking lot on Beach Road) but it was impassable a short way down due to drainage work. Then I went over to Beaver Lake. Highlights include a Hooded Warbler family with young right at the edge of the horse trailer parking lot, and 3 Great Egrets at Beaver Lake. Beaver Lake is filling in rapidly, the mudflats are now vegetated with even some small shrubs. Species list: Great Blue Heron Great Egret Mallard Killdeer Spotted Sandpiper Yellow-billed Cuckoo Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Eastern Wood Pewee Eastern Phoebe Eastern Kingbird Barn Swallow American Crow Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse White-breasted Nuthatch Carolina Wren Yellow-throated Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler Eastern Towhee Chipping Sparrow American Goldfinch Wendy Ealding Chesterfield You are subscribed to VA-Richmond-General. To unsubscribe, send email to va-richmond-general-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field. To adjust other settings (vacation, digest, etc.) please visit, //www.freelists.org/list/va-richmond-general.