LOCATION: Yukon City Park (Yukon, OK)
Contributed by Jimmy Woodard 
Description: Yukon City Park, Chisholm Trail Park and Freedom Trail Playground are interconnected recreation facilities on approx. 100 acres in Yukon just north of I-40. The Copeland Nature Trail runs along a heavily wooded creek on the east side of the park. The trail includes tall cottonwoods and several patches of dense trees with heavy undergrowth. There is a gravel trail through the woods on the south end of the park. The north end of Copeland Trail is dirt or grass and follows along the 5-acre Mulvey’s Pond. There is also a wide dirt trail along Spring Creek that goes north from the dam. This trail runs north across open fields to Chisholm Trail Park.
Yukon City Park is a 47 acre-facility; covered shelters, playgrounds, restrooms, junior Olympic size pool, kiddy pool, 10-acre pond, nature trails, horseshoe courts, baseball, softball, sand volleyball and football fields, basketball, bank-shot basketball courts – includes award winning handicapped accessible Freedom Trail Playground, designed for all children. The Park is located on the area in eastern Canadian County where the Chisholm Trail passed during the post-Civil War days of cattle drives from Texas to Abilene, Kansas. Mulvey’s Pond is the actual site of the last spring-fed watering hole the cowboys and cattle encountered before reaching Abilene. It was considered the last guaranteed water on the trip through Indian Territory. 
Directions: West of Oklahoma City on I-40. Exit north at Czech Hall Road. Turn west on NW 10th and turn north on S. Holly, the first street you approach. Other birding opportunities: Lake Overholser is located northeast of Yukon City Park. Also located in the area are Rose Lake and Stinchcomb Wildlife Preserve (north of Lake Overholser).
Jimmy Woodard’s Yukon City Park List:
| Cackling Goose | Downy Woodpecker | Orange-crowned Warbler |
| Canada Goose | Hairy Woodpecker | Nashville Warbler |
| Gadwall | Northern Flicker | Mourning Warbler |
| Mallard | American Kestrel | Common Yellowthroat |
| Blue-winged Teal | Eastern Wood-Pewee | Hooded Warbler |
| Wild Turkey | Yellow-bellied Flycatcher | American Redstart |
| Pied-billed Grebe | Least Flycatcher | Northern Parula |
| Double-crested Cormorant | Eastern Phoebe | Yellow Warbler |
| American White Pelican | Great Crested Flycatcher | Chestnut-sided Warbler |
| Great Blue Heron | Western Kingbird | Yellow-rumped Warbler |
| Great Egret | Eastern Kingbird | Black-throated Green Warbler |
| Snowy Egret | Scissor-tailed Flycatcher | Wilson’s Warbler |
| Little Blue Heron | White-eyed Vireo | Grasshopper Sparrow |
| Cattle Egret | Bell’s Vireo | Chipping Sparrow |
| Green Heron | Blue-headed Vireo | Clay-colored Sparrow |
| Black-crowned Night-Heron | Warbling Vireo | Field Sparrow |
| Yellow-crowned Night-Heron | Red-eyed Vireo | Lark Sparrow |
| Turkey Vulture | Blue Jay | Harris’s Sparrow |
| Mississippi Kite | American Crow | White-throated Sparrow |
| Sharp-shinned Hawk | Northern Rough-winged Swallow | Vesper Sparrow |
| Cooper’s Hawk | Purple Martin | Savannah Sparrow |
| Red-shouldered Hawk | Barn Swallow | Song Sparrow |
| Broad-winged Hawk | Cliff Swallow | Lincoln’s Sparrow |
| Swainson’s Hawk | Carolina Chickadee | Spotted Towhee |
| Red-tailed Hawk | Tufted Titmouse | Summer Tanager |
| Sora | Red-breasted Nuthatch | Northern Cardinal |
| American Coot | White-breasted Nuthatch | Indigo Bunting |
| Killdeer | Brown Creeper | Painted Bunting |
| Spotted Sandpiper | House Wren | Dickcissel |
| Greater Yellowlegs | Marsh Wren | Red-winged Blackbird |
| Lesser Yellowlegs | Carolina Wren | Eastern Meadowlark |
| Upland Sandpiper | Bewick’s Wren | Yellow-headed Blackbird |
| Baird’s Sandpiper | Blue-gray Gnatcatcher | Common Grackle |
| Semipalmated Sandpiper | Golden-crowned Kinglet | Great-tailed Grackle |
| Wilson’s Phalarope | Ruby-crowned Kinglet | Brown-headed Cowbird |
| Bonaparte’s Gull | Eastern Bluebird | Orchard Oriole |
| Franklin’s Gull | Swainson’s Thrush | Baltimore Oriole |
| Ring-billed Gull | Hermit Thrush | House Finch |
| Forster’s Tern | Wood Thrush | Pine Siskin |
| Rock Pigeon | American Robin | American Goldfinch |
| Eurasian Collared-Dove | Gray Catbird | House Sparrow |
| White-winged Dove | Brown Thrasher | |
| Mourning Dove | Northern Mockingbird | |
| Yellow-billed Cuckoo | European Starling | |
| Greater Roadrunner | Cedar Waxwing | |
| Chimney Swift | Ovenbird | |
| Ruby-throated Hummingbird | Worm-eating Warbler | |
| Red-headed Woodpecker | Louisiana Waterthrush | |
| Red-bellied Woodpecker | Black-and-white Warbler | |
| Yellow-bellied Sapsucker | Tennessee Warbler |