It's one of the best birding parks in the city of Shreveport. A mix of ox-bow lakes, open meadows and river woodlands, the park is located on the banks of the Red River. In fact at one time the ox bow lakes were part of the ever winding Red River. The birding is good year around but it is during Spring migration when birding is at its best. I've birded the park for many years and have a personal species list of 199. On one spring day, fellow birder Charles Lyon and I tallied 102 species. It was the best day of birding I've had at any time in Caddo Parish.
Today, however, the woodland birding was almost a big goose egg. I was saved from a shutout by single
Red-headed and
Downy Woodpeckers. The best birding today was around the back loop drive. A blanket of yellow wild flowers cover the inner part of the loop while the outside of loop provided great views of
Yellow-crowned Night-herons. I counted a half dozen with most of them showing their breeding plumes. There were lots of swallows flying about, mostly
Barn and
Purple Martins. The lake still had quite a few
American Coots,
Pied-billed Grebes, a pair of
Blue-winged Teal.
It's one of the best birding parks in the city of Shreveport. A mix of ox-bow lakes, open meadows and river woodlands, the park is located on the banks of the Red River. In fact at one time the ox bow lakes were part of the ever winding Red River. The birding is good year around but it is during Spring migration when birding is at its best. I've birded the park for many years and have a personal species list of 199. On one spring day, fellow birder Charles Lyon and I tallied 102 species. It was the best day of birding I've had at any time in Caddo Parish.
Today, however, the woodland birding was almost a big goose egg. I was saved from a shutout by single Red-headed and Downy Woodpeckers. The best birding today was around the back loop drive. A blanket of yellow wild flowers cover the inner part of the loop while the outside of loop provided great views of Yellow-crowned Night-herons. I counted a half dozen with most of them showing their breeding plumes. There were lots of swallows flying about, mostly Barn and Purple Martins. The lake still had quite a few American Coots, Pied-billed Grebes, a pair of Blue-winged Teal.
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