Lifers: Black-crowned Night-Heron and Baltimore Oriole at Mud Lake

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)

Red-eyed Vireos (heard but not seen)

Red-winged Blackbirds

Rose-breasted Grosbeak

Song Sparrows

Yellow Warblers

And several more who I wasn't able or didn't attempt to identify.

That's 23+ species.  So much fun!