LeFleur's Bluff State Park Birding and Wildlife Viewing Area

LeFleur's Bluff provides a lush green spot in the heart of urban Jackson. In addition to camping, fishing, picnic spots, and nature trails, the 305-acre park features a nine-hole golf course and a driving range. The park is named for Louis LeFleur, a French-Canadian explorer who established a trading post on the banks of the Pearl River in the late 1700s.
Birding and wildlife viewing in 255 acres/ 50- acre lake; floodplain forest; lakes; Pearl River; lush habitat for reptiles, mammals, fish, insects, Northern parulas, prothonotary warblers, yellowbilled cuckoos, wood thrushes, great egrets, snowy egrets, great blue herons, neotropical migrants, tanagers, rose-breasted grosbeaks, warblers, thrushes, wood ducks, Carolina wrens, cardinals, Carolina chickadees, tufted titmice, ruby-crowned kinglets, sparrows, yellow-bellied sapsuckers, goldfinches, and pileated woodpeckers.