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Col Sam Smith Park: Tuesday, July 26, 2016

24 degrees and sunny at the start
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Bird Highlight: 1000’s of cormorants

Double-crested Cormorant

Botany Highlight: Spotted Knapweed

Spotted Knapweed (Centaurea stoebe)

Species list: great blue heron, red-necked grebe, double-crested cormorant, mute swan, Canada goose, mallard, red-breasted merganser, turkey vulture, spotted sandpiper, herring gull, ring-billed gull, common tern, Caspian tern, rock pigeon, mourning dove, belted kingfisher,  eastern kingbird, tree swallow, barn swallow, rough-winged swallow, cliff swallow, purple martin, black-capped chickadee, American robin, blue-grey gnatcatcher, cedar waxwing, European starling, yellow warbler, house sparrow, red-winged blackbird, American goldfinch, song sparrow.  (32 species)

Eastern Kingbird

Creeping Bellflower (Campanula rapunculoides)

Red-breasted Merganser

Fragrant Sumach (Rhus aromatica)

Great Blue Heron

Chicory (Cichorium intybus)

American Goldfinch

Ninebark (Physocarpus opulifolius)

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