To the City Park and Beyond - - -

Adjacent to the Dallas City Park is the Hunter Arboretum & Botanic Garden.  This was our goal for our birdwalk with Rod Graves this morning. After walking through the Dallas City Park and checking on out the Cooper's Hawk nest, we ventured on to walk through the Hunter Arboretum & Botanic Garden. Rod commented right away about the beauty of the more natural setting and enjoyed inspecting a little closer the native trees and plants. When we reached the open meadow area, our turn around point, we sat down on the park bench with a good view of a couple of bird houses. I explained to him that the Violet-green Swallows and the Western Bluebirds the had used the nest boxes this year had fledged and just left the nests last week. A few minutes later he asked in his quite voice, "what's that bird there?" And there on top of the bluebird box was the Western Bluebird male feeding a juvenile. Sometimes I love being wrong.  eBird Checklist - 10 Jul 2023 - Dallas City Park - 21 species