These are the highlights of birding around Lake Fort Phantom, Lake Kirby, Oakwood Trails (State School), and Wildlife Trails (east of ACU). If anyone would like a complete list, we will happily e-mail one upon request.

Key: LFP: Lake Fort Phantom, LK: Lake Kirby, OT: Oakwood Trails, WT: Wildlife Trails

• Eared Grebe: 6, LK
• American White Pelican: 6, LFP
• Great Egret: 3, LFP
• Tri-colored Heron: 1, LFP
• Snowy Egret: 1, LFP
• White-faced Ibis: 3, LFP
• Black-bellied Whistling-Duck: 2, LFP
• Common Moorhen: 2, LK
• Black-necked Stilt: 6, LFP
• American Avocet: 4, LK
• Semipalmated Plover: 1, LK
• Solitary Sandpiper: 1, LFP
• Spotted Sandpiper: 2 LFP and 4 LK
• Willet: 8, LK
• Western Sandpiper: 4, LFP
• Least Sandpiper: 14, LFP
• Wilson’s Phalarope: 3, LFP
• Bonaparte’s Gull,: 2, LFP
• Franklin’s Gull: 6, LFP
• Forster’s Tern: 1, LFP and 4 LK
• Downy Woodpecker: 1, OT
• American Pipit: 8, LFP
• Bell’s Vireo: 1, LFP
• Yellow Warbler: 1, WT
• Cassin’s Sparrow: 2, LK
• Bronzed Cowbird: 1, LFP

Sightings by Lorie Black