notes.
(mostly a birding log || species observations for when i remember)
8/23/26 (lake #3, rain settled)
+ 150 canada and cackling geese (mixed together)
+ 6 killdeer
+ 2 franklins gull
+ 50 ring billed gull
+ 3 common tern
+ 1 great blue heron
+ 1 northern flicker
+ X american robin
8/23/26 (lake #2, rain)
+ 1 killdeer
+ 25 ring billed gull
+ 3 black tern
+ 7 common tern
+ X american robin
8/23/26 (lake #1, HEAVY rain)
+ 2 canada goose
+ 2 lesser yellowlegs
+ 1 pectoral sandpiper
+ 3 great blue heron
+ 1 eastern kingbird
+ X barn swallow
8/16/26
+ 15 canada goose
+ 50 unidentified duck (most likely teal)
+ 3 killdeer
+ 1 semipalmated plover
+ 1 lesser yellowlegs
+ 15 (?) sandpipers of some sort
+ 2 caspian tern (one adult; one juvinille)
+ 1 snowy egret
+ 2 great egret
+ 3 great blue heron
+ 6 american white pelican
+ 2 turkey vulture (flyover)
+ 1 belted kingfisher
8/8/26
+ X canada goose
+ X mourning dove
+ 1 chimney swift
+ 3 killdeer
+ 1 semipalmated plover
+ 1 solitary sandpiper
+ 1 lesser yellowlegs
+ 1 lesser sandpiper
+ 5 least sandpiper
+ 15 pectoral sandpiper
+ 1 semipalmated sandpiper
+ 1 great blue heron
+ 5 turkey vulture (flyover)
+ 1 eastern kingbird
