Date: 09/15/2020

Number: 500

500 is a low count. There have been so many the last two nights. So beautiful.

Roost first formed on 9/14. I saw them around 5pm. On Tuesday morning, they were just starting to move around. I discovered there were even more that evening (9/15).

On Monday, it was breezy. Many had gone into an opening though where the wind wasn't notable. It was pretty easy try to count. The activity Tuesday was much more active. It was a warmer day. They were so much thicker in all of my trees compared to Monday so I think it's pretty safe to say the number nearly doubled.

We have plums, chokecherries, and mulberries abundant in my yard. They seem to like roosting in the mulberries.

Overnight temps reached the upper 50's on Monday night and winds were from the south... it was pretty breezy but I don't recall what the speed was. Winds continued out of the south all day Tuesday. Lows stayed up in the mid 60's. There's a cold front coming through today (9/16).

No sign of them 9/16. It’s much cooler and the wind is from the north.

This was the latest I had them roosting. I thought I had missed them this year because it’s always around the fourth.

Colman, SD

Latitude: 44 Longitude: -96.8

Observed by: Julie
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