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Earl Bales Park: Saturday, July 23, 2016

30 degrees and sunny at the start

Bird Highlight: Indigo Bunting

Indigo Bunting (male) photo: wikimedia

Botany Highlight: Great Burdock

Great Burdock (Arctium lappa)

Species list: double-crested cormorant, Canada goose, mallard, spotted sandpiper, ring-billed gull, chimney swift, northern flicker, hairy woodpecker, downy woodpecker, eastern kingbird,  tree swallow, barn swallow, blue jay, black-capped chickadee, white-breasted nuthatch, red-breasted nuthatch, gray catbird,  American robin, cedar waxwing, European starling, red-eyed vireo, warbling vireo, house sparrow, red-winged blackbird, baltimore oriole, common grackle, northern cardinal, indigo bunting, American goldfinch.  (29 species)

Staghorn Sumach (male flowers) Rhus typhina

Cottontail Rabbit

Red Osier Dogwood (Cornus servicea)

European Buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica)

Common Blackberry (Rubus allegheniensis)

Black Walnut (Juglans nigra)

English Oak (Quercus robur)

Field Sow Thistle (Sonchus arvensis)

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