To find Boyle Park, take exit 6B from I-630 that runs east to west from the City center. 6B brings you out on John Barrow Road. Go south on Barrow, up the hill. Go just over a mile down Barrow and turn left on 28th Street, and the Park is straight ahead.
Best area for spring birding. Look along the Rock Creek which bisects the Park, for many different kinds of warblers pass through here. Prone to flooding in heavy spring thunderstorms. Habitat is wooded, from open and developed with playgrounds and jogging trails to more dense brushy spots. Yellow-crowned Night-herons are known to nest here, Wood Duck, Mississippi Kite,are regularly seen. Fish Crow, Belted Kingfisher, and Downy, Red-bellied, and Pileated Woodpeckers are common.
Update by Mel White, May 1999:
I went over to Boyle Park in central Little Rock for a couple of
hours this morning, to see if the weather yesterday might have brought some
birds. There were a few little warbler flocks about, but it wasn't "one of
those days." The default bird was Tennessee Warbler, as it usually is this
time of year here.
I was sad to see the effects of the city's policy of cutting down
everything in the park with a trunk diameter of less than five inches (slight
exaggeration). This is their way of opening up sight lines in the park to
make people feel safer, which is supposed to attract more nice people and
discourage the wrong people. Big areas that once were shrubby tangles are now
open places with jewelweed and mayapple. I don't want to say that Boyle Park
isn't a good place to watch birds anymore because it still is, but it isn't
the same place it once was. It's disconcerting to see Common Yellowthroats
and Indigo Buntings carrying nesting material in places where I once saw
migrant Black-billed Cuckoos and Bay-breasted Warblers.
I guess any day you see a Magnolia Warbler in the new green leaves of
a bald-cypress and a Blackburnian Warbler in the top of a pine is a pretty
good day, though.
I saw House Finches and a White-crowned Sparrow (!), which brought my
personal list for the park up to 115 species. I could add a bunch more if I
just went over there in January and picked up some common winter things.