This afternoon I went out to Canyon Lake #6 a/k/a Jim Bartram Lake a/k/a Dunbar Lake.    Suffering from sitting disease and metabolic syndrome, having gone from a reasonably active and healthy 62-year old to a a couch potato 66 -year old, I desperately need exercise.     Nice 2.5 mile walk around the lake with binoculars.    Here's what I saw.

Lot of double-crested cormorants, some unidentified gulls, passed near one great blue heron up in a tree -- never got anywhere that near to one without it flapping it's wings and taking off to parts unknown -- and darn it, I did not have a camera.    

Loads of red wing blackbirds but as is often the case I did not see a single female;  presumably the females were down in the reeds.   A small flock of juncos, slate-gray, dark eyed variety, and some kind of dark sparrow near them.  

Canada geese and some smaller geese that may have been cacking geese;  I am not up enough on the differences to say for sure.

Northern shoveler ducks, positive ID, and a first for my life list.   Coots.   Some other ducks I didn't see enough to ID.  

In bushes near MLK there was a shy yellowish bird with a tiny "cheek, cheek" song that might be the same one that has haunted me for two years that I thought might be a yellowbreasted chat or nashville warbler.   Saw it in the bush but only as greenish-yellow and some kind of pattern on the folded wings.

Thinking they were burrowing owls over near a patch of prairie dogs, I glassed then startled several hunkered down birds that turned out to be western meadowlarks.

That's all I can remember for now.