I spent about 3 hours along Lake Creek Trail in NW Austin (Williamson Co.) this morning tallying 66 species. Highlights were Olive-sided Flycatcher, Bell's Vireos, Mourning Warblers, and Magnolia Warbler. Blue-winged Teal 10 Great Blue Heron 1 Great Egret 4 Snowy Egret 2 Green Heron 2 Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 3 Black Vulture 3 Turkey Vulture 9 Red-shouldered Hawk 2 Killdeer 11 Spotted Sandpiper 11 Lesser Yellowlegs 8 Semipalmated Sandpiper 1 Least Sandpiper 48 Baird's Sandpiper 2 Pectoral Sandpiper 15 White-winged Dove 550 Mourning Dove 17 Common Nighthawk 1 Chimney Swift 7 Ruby-throated/Black-chinned Hummingbird 3 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Ladder-backed Woodpecker 1 Downy Woodpecker 1 Olive-sided Flycatcher 1 Least Flycatcher 1 Eastern Phoebe 4 Great Crested Flycatcher 3 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher 5 White-eyed Vireo 5 Bell's Vireo 2 Blue-headed Vireo 1 Warbling Vireo 1 Blue Jay 5 American Crow 4 Purple Martin 1 Barn Swallow 19 Cliff Swallow 23 Cave Swallow 2 Carolina Chickadee 1 Black-crested Titmouse 2 House Wren 1 Bewick's Wren 3 Carolina Wren 10 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 2 Swainson's Thrush 1 American Robin 2 Gray Catbird 7 Northern Mockingbird 9 European Starling 17 Mourning Warbler 2 Common Yellowthroat 10 Magnolia Warbler 1 Yellow Warbler 3 Chestnut-sided Warbler 1 Wilson's Warbler 2 Lincoln's Sparrow 1 Northern Cardinal 24 Red-winged Blackbird 10 Common Grackle 1 Great-tailed Grackle 36 Bronzed Cowbird 1 Brown-headed Cowbird 1 House Finch 7 Lesser Goldfinch 1 House Sparrow 37 Richard Kostecke, Ph.D. The Nature Conservancy 318 Congress Ave., Austin, Texas 78701 Email: rkost73@xxxxxxxxx or rkostecke@xxxxxxx 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