Birding at Mitchell Lake Audubon Center

Life is good when you can walk in the beautiful sun while enjoying both songbirds and water birds alike! I have to drive all the way out to White Rock Lake in Dallas Texas for such an experience. But today, I birded at Mitchell Lake Audubon Center hidden away in South San Antonio.

A majority of the trails at Mitchell Lake Audubon Center are really built for cars, which I found kind of odd. One would think we’d want to save the birds the hassle of breathing in exhaust fumes while doing everything in their power to survive. So dodging cars was new for me. But, this birder endured.

Flycatcher. Too dark to identify
Cardinal
Bewick’s Wren
Mockingbird having just eaten berries of some sort.
Curve-billed Thrasher (lifer!!!)
Western Kingbird
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
Lincoln Sparrow
Eastern Phoebe
Great Egret
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck (lifer!!!)
Loggerhead Shrike
Snowy Egret
A Northern Shoveler and a Pied-billed Grebe
A lone Pied-billed Grebe
American Coots
Black-necked Stilt
White Pelicans
White Pelicans
Butterfly (I’m horrible with my butterflies)
Butterfly (I’m horrible with my butterflies)