Scrub Jay are resident here. In many ways the parking lot is the most birdy because it has the most diversity of habitat. At present Black-capped Vireos do not nest here. The Mitchell Lake Wetlands is the most heavily birded location in Bexar County. In turn, the reason those birders look for birds at that place is because lots of good birds are seen there.
Hurricanes are good for bringing in good birds to Mitchell Lake.
Those birds include Sooty Tern, six individuals, and a Magnificant Frigatebird, both of which were blown in by Hurrican Allen in the early 1980s. There was a five year span when we had a Ruff, sometimes a male, somtimes a female, that wintered at Mitchell Lake, usually being seen in Basin 3 or Basin 4. A Curlew Sandpiper spent some 72 hours at Mitchell Lake in the early-mid 1980s. The complex has a mixture of brushland, grassland, mud flats, shallow ponds, deep ponds, and a deep water lake. Neotropic Cormorant will be here.