...and not quite as old- Earl G. Williamson Park, Caddo, US-LA Dec 2, 2012 10:45 AM - 12:20 PM Protocol: Traveling 0.5 mile(s) Comments: Birded with Rosemary Seidler, Ronnie Maum and Willie Matthews. 4 observers, 1 hr, 35 mins, .5 miles. We birded the thickets on both ends of the park and boat launch. Aside from the LESC and a few others, the lakefront was comparatively slower than usual 41 species (+1 other taxa) Mallard 2 wary Mallard (Domestic type) 2 Lesser Scaup 157 Ruddy Duck 18 Pied-billed Grebe 2 Double-crested Cormorant 5 Great Blue Heron 1 Great Egret 3 Turkey Vulture 1 Bald Eagle 1 distant, 1 or 2y American Coot 27 Forster's Tern 2 Belted Kingfisher 1 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 5 Downy Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker 2 Eastern Phoebe 4 Blue Jay 4 American Crow 2 Fish Crow 16 Carolina Chickadee 5 Tufted Titmouse 2 White-breasted Nuthatch 1 in the baldcypress near boat launch Brown Creeper 1 House Wren 2 Carolina Wren 5 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 3 1,2 Golden-crowned Kinglet 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 11 Northern Mockingbird 3 Orange-crowned Warbler 2 Pine Warbler 3 Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 6 Eastern Towhee 2 Fox Sparrow 4 Song Sparrow 5 Swamp Sparrow 1 White-throated Sparrow 48 Dark-eyed Junco 1 Northern Cardinal 16 Pine Siskin 5 American Goldfinch 4 This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org) Cheers, Terry