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Editor s note: Joe Neal of Fayetteville, a field trip leader with Northwest Arkansas Audubon Society, writes an essay after each of his birding trips. Here s his report of a pontoon boat trip he guided this fall on Beaver Lake.
Fish by the thousands swim in an oval pond next to Beaver Lake during summer. Come autumn, those fish are gone, but birds by the dozens, sometimes hundreds, visit the lagoon. Bird watchers with binoculars and spotting scopes follow the flocks.