On 9/30/12, Veena Mohan and myself spent much of the day birding Fayette Co. Lists from our 3 main stops are below. La Grange- Pitch Fork Rd. pond, Fayette, US-TX Wood Duck 1 Gadwall 3 American Wigeon 1 Pied-billed Grebe 5 Great Blue Heron 2 Great Egret 3 Little Blue Heron 5 White-faced Ibis 1 Turkey Vulture 1 Least Sandpiper 11 Chimney Swift 1 Crested Caracara 1 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher 2 Barn Swallow 2 Cave Swallow 5 Carolina Wren 1 Northern Cardinal 1 Lake Fayette - Park Prairie Park Pied-billed Grebe 2 Neotropic Cormorant 236 Double-crested Cormorant 25 American White Pelican 4 Great Egret 4 Snowy Egret 1 Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 1 Black Vulture 56 Turkey Vulture 6 Osprey 4 Red-shouldered Hawk 1 Broad-winged Hawk 13 American Coot 148 Forster's Tern 3 Red-bellied Woodpecker 2 Ladder-backed Woodpecker 1 Peregrine Falcon 1 Couch's Kingbird 2 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher 1 Blue Jay 4 American Crow 4 Tree Swallow 2 Bank Swallow 1 Barn Swallow 1 Cliff Swallow 2 Cave Swallow 6 Carolina Chickadee 3 Tufted Titmouse 1 Carolina Wren 2 Black-and-white Warbler 1 Nashville Warbler 1 Chestnut-sided Warbler 1 Black-throated Green Warbler 2 Northern Cardinal 9 Lake Fayette - Oak Thicket Park Pied-billed Grebe 1 American White Pelican 88 Great Blue Heron 2 Great Egret 2 Black Vulture 2 Turkey Vulture 7 Osprey 3 Red-shouldered Hawk 1 Broad-winged Hawk 1 American Coot 24 White-winged Dove 1 Eastern Screech-Owl 1 Blue Jay 3 American Crow 2 Carolina Chickadee 4 Tufted Titmouse 3 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 3 Northern Cardinal 5 Richard Kostecke, Ph.D. The Nature Conservancy 318 Congress Ave., Austin, Texas 78701 Email: rkost73@xxxxxxxxx or rkostecke@xxxxxxx