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Amateur Birder's Journal - Bird Photographs & Stories by J R Compton.
© 2006 by J R Compton. All Rights Reserved

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Green Heron with Wings Up - Copyright 2007 by J R Compton. All Rights Reserved. No Reproduction in Any Medium Without Specific Written Permission.

Green Heroon with Wings Up

White Rock Lake - specific

Except for my own version of a White Rock Lake Map, the White Rock Lake Master Plan is the best map of White Rock Lake I've ever seen (1.1 megabyte download), but it's a future plan, not what's there now. There's hope. The dog park near Mockingbird Point (itself disintegrating despite its 5-years-ago depiction on the map) is gone.

To be replaced by an "interactive center." I guess it's not good enough we can go out there and interact with the area with our own minds and bodies, we gotta have an interactive center — akin to the interpretive centers at too many national parks. What a load.

Birds of White Rock Lake and Vicinity - a non-alphabetized list of bird species and how common they are, maybe. Driving instructions are out of date as the City chopped Lawther Drive up to prevent us from driving around the lake, once a popular diversion.

Fishing White Rock Lake
The White Rock Lake Foundation
An Unofficial Guide to Scenic White Rock Park
For The Love of the Lake

White Rock Lake General Subject Files, 1921-1953
White Rock Lake Museum in the Bath House Cultural Center
Dallas Parks & Recreation Overview
The White Rock Creek entry in Wikipedia (informative and extensive)

The White Rock Lake entry in Wikipedia is significantly smaller and needing editing and expansion.

Handbook of Texas Online entries for White Rock Creek and White Rock Lake.

Painted Bunting at The Heard Museum grounds - Copyright 2007 by J R Compton. All Rights Reserved. No Reproduction in Any Medium Without Specific Written Permission.

Painted Bunting on the Trail at the Heard Museum

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Birds Beyond White Rock Lake

Audubon Dallas - and their links page of Texas bird groups includes info about the White Rock area.
The Virtual Birder - Texas Rare Bird Alerts
Texas Wild - Texas Wildlife Identification & Viewing Guide

Birds of Texas  - Small, often indistinct photographs of birds but great information about markings, voice, where they're to be found, habitat and nests for a long list of Texas birds.

Dallas Audubon Bird Talk Forums

North Central Texas Birds - a checklist of birds detailing their relative abundance

Rogers Wildlife Rehabilitation, Inc.

The Care and Feeding of Injured Wild Birds - from The Wild Bird Care Center in Ottawa

The Sounds of Birds

BLOGS

Since I finally snapped that this journal is a blog (Thanks again, Betsy.), I've been looking at others. One of the best I've seen — beautiful bird and insect photographs — at DigDeep.

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Photographers

The Danator's Website

Birds in Flight

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Birds As Science

Cornell Lab of Ornithology including The Birds of North America

Birds of Stanford - remarkable scholarship about birds that visit Stanford University in Palo Alto, California

Robot Birdwatcher Seeks elusive ivory-billed woodpecker believed extinct for half century

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Birds as nuissance

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