Howdy All! Really good morning for birding. We had 8 folks join the bird walk and lifers were spotted all around. There were a couple of fledgling birders who did stellar at spotting birds. One little girl, about 6 years old, was spotting birds left and right. It was hard to keep up with her. She did a great job at identification too. Some of the lifers for the group were Mississippi Kite, Summer Tanager, Painted Bunting, and a few others. All-in-all we had 51 species. Tyler SP (PPW-E 065), Smith, US-TX Apr 26, 2014 8:15 AM - 11:15 AM Protocol: Traveling 3.0 mile(s) 52 species (+2 other taxa) Wood Duck 2 Gadwall 3 Mallard 4 Mallard (Domestic type) 2 Pied-billed Grebe 5 Cattle Egret 1 Green Heron 1 Black Vulture 8 Turkey Vulture 4 Mississippi Kite 3 Red-shouldered Hawk 1 Broad-winged Hawk 3 Spotted Sandpiper 1 Mourning Dove 1 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 5 Red-headed Woodpecker 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 3 Downy Woodpecker 1 Eastern Phoebe 4 Great Crested Flycatcher 4 Eastern Kingbird 6 White-eyed Vireo 4 Yellow-throated Vireo 1 Red-eyed Vireo 5 Blue Jay 7 American Crow 2 Purple Martin 20 Carolina Chickadee 5 Tufted Titmouse 7 White-breasted Nuthatch 2 Brown-headed Nuthatch 5 House Wren 1 Carolina Wren 6 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 2 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1 Eastern Bluebird 2 Northern Mockingbird 6 Black-and-white Warbler 1 Tennessee Warbler 3 Nashville Warbler 1 Common Yellowthroat 2 Pine Warbler 2 Black-throated Green Warbler 1 White-throated Sparrow 4 sparrow sp. 2 Summer Tanager 3 Northern Cardinal 8 Indigo Bunting 15 Painted Bunting 2 Red-winged Blackbird 1 Common Grackle 4 Brown-headed Cowbird 6 Orchard Oriole 1 Baltimore Oriole 1 Good birding, Boyd A. Sanders BBA, CIG Interpreter/Exhibit Tech Tyler State Park 789 Park Rd. 16 Tyler, TX 75706 (903)597-5338 boyd.sanders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati (When All Else Fails, Play Dead- Red Green) [Description: TPWD LBO logo] Learn how you can help Texas State Parks: <http://bit.ly/sVdilb> 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