Easy Reference City Map Field Checklist for Pineywoods Region Deep East Texas Birding Guide

The impressive variety of birds that call the surrounding forests, lakes and pasturelands home make the oldest town in Texas a bird-watcher's delight. Among the favorite sightings for visiting birders are the Red-cockaded Woodpecker, Brown-headed Nuthatch and Bachman's Sparrow which within the state are found exclusively in this region known as the Pineywoods of Eastern Texas. Here are a few of our favorite bird watching sites in Nacogdoches:

Alazan Bayou Wildlife Management Area 8 miles south on US 59 then CR 628 West 2.5 mi. Sightings include: sparrow species, wrens, finches, buntings, Broad-winged hawk, grassland species, and migrants.  Seasons: Winter and spring. Pecan Park and Lanana Creek Trail Located on Starr Ave. Sightings include: Migrant Warblers and Orioles, Pileated Woodpecker, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker.   March to May is excellent for migrating songbirds. Ralph McAllister Park 20 mi. south of Nacogdoches on TX 103, then 2.3 mi. west FM 1277.  Sightings include: Bald Eagle, Common Loon, Earned and Horned Grebes, ducks and cormorants, and spring and fall migrants.  SFA Experimental Forest 8 mi. south on US 59, then CR 628 west    Sightings include: Hooded Merganser, Wood Duck, White-breasted Nuthatch, Brown Creeper, Prohonotary Warbler, Pileated Woodpecker, Wood Thrush, Screech and Barred Owl, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Red-headed and Red-bellied woodpecker.  SFA Pineywoods Native Plant Center 2806 Raguet Street Sightings include: Great Blue Heron, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Red-eyed Vireo, and Ruby-crowned Kinglet. Saint’s Rest Road Loop 224 south, FM 1275 south 6.6 miles, right on paved road marked “Saint’s Rest Baptist Church”  .4 miles and turn left on good gravel road following Dorr’s Creek 3 miles to dead end at Angelina River.  Sightings include: Louisiana Waterthrush, Kentucky Prothonotary and Swainson’s Warblers, Solitary Vireo, Rusty Blackbird, Purple Finch.

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