My first time at Mud Lake. Magical. Birds, birds, everywhere, birds. So cool. Like being in a zoo -- everywhere you turn, more and more. Saw so many! Including... Lifer: Black-crowned Night-Heron (three of them resting near the edge of the lake) Lifer: Baltimore Oriole (at the really cool spot toward the east where tons of birds of all sorts kept swooping through to catch insects American Golfinches American Redstart American Robins Black-capped Chickadee Blue Jays Canada Geese (a-plenty) Cedar Waxwings Common Yellowthroat Downy Woodpecker (maybe some Hairys too) Great Blue Heron an Egret of some sort (I'm not sure which) Mallards Wood Ducks (immature -- and maybe some mature females -- didn't see any mature males **Edit: Ah, google says the males are absent by hatching time, but also, that they mold mid-summer and take on a drab appearance like the females -- one or the other of these must explain it.) Northern Cardinals Northern Flickers Ovenbird (heard but not seen)