Lake Bridgeport Texas

Thousand Trails Bay Landing Preserve in Bridgeport Texas

We spent a week at this Thousand Trails Preserve and found it, too, suffers from the drought conditions throughout Texas.  The first picture is from the website of Thousand Trails and shows a dock at the surface of the water.

Below is the same dock as we found it. There is a sign at the top of the path leading to the dock warning there is no jumpingor diving from the dock! Duh!!

We have seen other Cardinals do the same thing 

perching on our rear view mirror to admire themselves!

We did see a few "new" birds for our list, but other than saying this is some  kind of Flycatcher we are not sure which one!

This is the common House Sparrow included as a reference.

And this is the White Crowned Sparrow where you can see his namesake crown.

A side view shows the cheek stripe of white.

Here you can see the low water level in a wide shot of the lake.

We had a great parking space with no neighboring site outside our door with the lake just behind us. 

This is Texas after all, so I had to include a field of Prickly Pear Cactus.

Still the same problem with vertical format pictures so you will just  have to turn your computer sideways to see the Red-Bellied Woodpecker!

And one of those Texas-sized squirrels with the brown belly and tail.

The Lakes Tour of Texas concludes with this entry. But not to fear more lakes are upcoming. Read the next entry about our adventures at Lake Thunderbird State Park in Oklahoma!