We are ultimately Houston bound but stopped in Austin along the way just to check it out. McKinney State Park is mostly out of the fray but gets us close enough to run into town for the city attractions. We can’t manage to escape the traffic and airport noise but it is a pretty little park with a few trails and lots of shade. It is very dry and very hot (still in the nineties many days) so birding is not so great. The ever present chicadee and titmouse chatter much of the time plus jays and mockingbirds periodically interject. I am still trying to identify an owl call I have heard the past couple nights. We hear coyotes every evening. They seem quite at home in this near suburban area.