The yellow warblers are back! It was nice to hear the birds singing as we walked around the lake on a beautiful sunny morning. Besides yellow warblers, we could hear house wrens, goldfinches, black-capped chickadees, a Cassin's vireo, chipping sparrows and more. The great horned owl parents were hooting in the cottonwoods keeping an eye on the owlets in the hole. We also saw a Townsend's warbler, several yellow-rumped warblers, and several ruby-crowned kinglets. The lake was full of bufflehead, northern shovelers, mallards, coots and a couple horned grebes. The cliff swallows are building their nests on the concrete structure in the lake, the rough-winged swallows are doing the same in the parking lot bank, and the tree swallows are finding boxes and snags. Kingfishers are nesting in the bank along the canal and in the cut along the road going to the parking lot. Every week will bring more birds!
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