Flame Skimmers are among a handful of dragonfly and damselfly species found on the lake in spring and early summer. They are rapidly consumed by other lake wildlife, especially by our lake's birdlife, frequently seen taking mouthfuls of large insects to their nesting young..

Say's Phoebe perched on Cattail stalk.

The fortunate among us have been on a Snipe Hunt, maybe during our scouting years. We are told to bring flashlight and gunnysack and PATIENCE, lots of patience for the event will certainly take a night, if not two. I came out of my Camp Wolfeboro experience believing there were no such creatures, but then, here on Cameron Park Lake, what should appear but the very thing, a Wilson's Snipe. Unforgettable.

Fox Squirrels are found on Cameron Park Lake year round. They are exciting to watch as gymnastics is their forte, second only to the energy they put into finding and stashing acorns, in which effort they are constantly at war with our local Acorn Woodpeckers, about which, more later.

Kingfishers work from perches, often over or at the edge of water. Small fish are their target, snatched from the surface or from just below and hauled to another waterside perch for consumption. The photographed individual is a female, her cinnamon belt a tell tale,