When submitting eBird observations at Davis Mountains State Park, it is most helpful to start a new checklist for each hotspot in the state park. Use the general hotspot when you have a checklist that includes multiple locations or if no other hotspot or personal location is appropriate for your sightings.

After paying entrance fee, if you decide to go to the Primitive area across TX-118 from the entrance, you need to sign in at the head quarters building where you registered. They will then give you the combination to enter the gate. You will need to come back and sign out once you've concluded your Primitive Area birding. If you choose proceed into the park, your first birding location will come up on the right about 0.3 miles. This is the original bird blind named Emory Oak Wildlife Viewing area. It includes both indoors and outdoors viewing with seating and is wheelchair accessible. Next you can continue down the park road to campsites 64-85 along Keesey Creek, which runs through the park. These can be really good for migrants in the spring, summer nesting species, and winter sparrows, wrens, thrushes plus more. It can be viewed from both sides. After this location you can drive across the creek on Park Road 3A past the dump station and bathrooms to the Interpretive Center/Bird Blind. This location has inside and outside viewing with seating as well as wheelchair accessibility and restrooms. From the Interpretive Center you can proceed across the road to campsites 46-61 and the large picnic area at the east end of these campsites. Some of the larger oaks in the park are in this area. You can return to the main road by the Interpretive Center and go right then a quick left past campsites up to the amphitheater. This will give you a shorter distance to Keesey Canyon along Skyline Drive Trail.  After all of this then you can drive up Skyline Drive. Another sub-Hotspot is the Indian Lodge. But it is closed for renovations and is scheduled for reopening in January 2024.

Cassin's Kingbird, Bewick's and Canyon Wrens, White-breasted Nuthatch, Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay, Black-crested Titmouse, Acorn and Ladder-backed Woodpecker, and assorted Hummingbirds. Be on the lookout for migrants like flycatchers, vireos, and warblers, (Virginia's, Yellow-rumped, Townsend's, Black-throated Gray and Grace's). And if you're lucky Montezuma Quail and a roosting Elf Owl. Birds of Davis Mountains State Park and Vicinity Checklist

This site is open daily, and developed camping is available at the site. An entrance fees is required.

A total of 365 bird species are known to occur within Jeff Davis County and Davis Mountains State Park provides a convenient location to see many of them. The park offers 20 miles of hiking trails and features two particularly good Bird Viewing Blinds. The Primitive area of the park along Limpia Creek is especially good for birding.

The Davis Mountains Loop is apart of the Texas Parks and Wildlife's, Great Texas Wildlife Trails, Far West Texas Wildlife Trail.

Davis Mountains State Park Trails Map