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The Stroud Preserve, 3 December 2012
Russell Rogers Posted on Monday, December 3, 2012 at 7:20PM
I’ve been wondering for a while where in the heck all the Common Grackles that were around here in the spring and summer went. Well, today they came back along with a few of their friends. A massive flock of grackles, 6000 by my best estimation, flew around the preserve all morning. I never got close enough to the flock to check it out for Rusty Blackbirds or other fun things.
Without that flock of grackles the morning would have been pretty slow. It was also unusually warm, starting out at 50 and ending up at 61! I enjoyed it but it really shouldn’t be that warm this time of year. This evening, as I was putting out the trash at dusk, I saw a bat flying around the neighborhood. Hummm…
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