Ovando Parks & Gardens

Browns Lake is a shallow, productive 500-acre lake surrounded by open sagebrush grasslands and aspen groves. It's an extremely reliable place to see both bald eagles and osprey (especially in the spring), and almost always has significant numbers of waterfowl. The marsh in the lake's northeast corner is a good place to see American avocets, yellow-headed blackbirds, and broods of Canada geese. Sandhill cranes, common loons, American white pelicans, and upland sandpipers are often seen here in the spring. Black terns, uncommon in this area, nest on Browns Lake.