If you are a Bird Watcher or love birds, you will love the Highland Lakes Area in the Texas Hill Country. Of the 900 species of birds in the United States, 600 can be found in Texas. Many interesting birds migrate through Texas and others spend the winter here.
One visiting Bird Watching couple who spent the weekend at the Mystic Cove Bed & Breakfast Inn on the west side of Lake Buchanan spotted 27 species of birds in an outing one morning and spotted over 40 species during their weekend stay at the inn.
The American Bald Eagle winters at Lake Buchanan. Boat tours go up the lake to spot the nesting birds along the shore. The eagles arrive in the area in November and leave for the north in March. In January the annual Eagle count is taken in the area.
Seven very rare Painted Buntings were spotted eating seeds off of grass at a residents home in Floyd Acres on the west side of Lake Buchanan. They stayed around for over two hours at the same location and came back daily for about two weeks.
Maybe you read about the Bluefooted Boobie that spent the summer a few years ago on Lake LBJ. Bird Watchers came from all over the country to view this bird. He stayed for several months on the lake. It was assumed that he had gotten lost and just made the lake his home for the summer. He was probably from the Gallapogos Islands.
Whooping Cranes, Canadian Snow Geese, Canadian Geese, Pelicans, Storks, Herons, Ducks and many other birds migrate through the area in the fall and the spring.
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