On a hunch, I swung by Lake Travis, Bob Wentz/Windy Point Park (Austin, Travis Co.) this afternoon in the hopes that the stormy weather had dropped some birds down onto the lake and I was not disappointed. The American Avocets, White-rumped Sandpipers, and Caspian Tern were are all new for my patch list. My full list follows: Mallard 6 Blue-winged Teal 2 Northern Shoveler 10 Redhead 3 Ruddy Duck 1 Turkey Vulture 1 American Coot 4 Killdeer 2 American Avocet 4 Spotted Sandpiper 7 White-rumped Sandpiper 5 Baird's Sandpiper 2 Franklin's Gull 6 Caspian Tern 1 Forster's Tern 4 Mourning Dove 2 Cliff Swallow 5 Black-crested Titmouse 2 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 4 Northern Mockingbird 4 European Starling 3 Lark Sparrow 1 Northern Cardinal 6 Painted Bunting 5 Great-tailed Grackle 1 House Finch 1 Lesser Goldfinch 3 House Sparrow 1 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