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Twilight Walk at the Meadows – September 26, 2024

Leaders Group 1:  Alan & Robin Crawford

Leaders Group 2: Jackie & Keith Parker, Ruth Bergstrom

Temp: 70° F

Winds:  0 mph

Weather Conditions: mostly cloudy, light breeze.

Group 1

28 species

Species Count
Canada Goose 160
Mute Swan 2
Mallard 45
Mourning Dove 12
Lesser Yellowlegs 14
Herring Gull 10
Great Black-backed Gull 10
Lesser Black-backed Gull 8
Common Tern 1
Royal Tern 16
Double-crested Cormorant 3
Snowy Egret 4
Great Egret 6
Turkey Vulture 2
Osprey 6
Sharp-shinned Hawk 1
Cooper’s Hawk 1
Bald Eagle 1
Merlin 8
American Crow 4
Tree Swallow 40
Carolina Wren 2
European Starling 4
Gray Catbird 3
Northern Mockingbird 2
Red-winged Blackbird 12
Common Grackle 2
Northern Cardinal 1

 

Group 2

26 species

Species Count
Canada Goose 76
Mute Swan 2
Mallard 20
Mourning Dove 5
Lesser Yellowlegs 10
Greater Yellowlegs 4
Greater Yellowlegs - Ruth Bergstrom

Greater Yellowlegs photo by Ruth Bergstrom

 
Greater Yellowlegs - Ruth Bergstrom

Greater Yellowlegs photo by Ruth Bergstrom

 
Laughing Gull 2
Herring Gull 1
Great Black-backed Gull 57
Lesser Black-backed Gull 12
Forster’s Tern 1
Royal Tern 14
Snowy Egret 3
Great Egret 1
Osprey 6
Sharp-shinned Hawk 1
Cooper’s Hawk 1
Bald Eagle 1
Merlin 6
American Crow 1
Tree Swallow 10
Barn Swallow 1
Carolina Wren 2
Gray Catbird 2
Northern Mockingbird 1
House Sparrow 1