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Winter 2014-2015 Photojournal
With one month left of winter, a look at last year’s long-lasting cold and snowy winter in Glen Providence Park! Snow started early with a dusting at Thanksgiving, and it snowed 5″ on March 20, the...
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Spring-Summer 2015 Photojournal
Spring emerges in waves of blooms around Glen Providence Park – starting with lovely ephemerals Bloodroot and Trout Lily. Soon after, trees start blossoming around the pond, with elegant Serviceberry...
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5-7-2016 Spring Bird Walk
Join us for a bird walk in Glen Providence Park during spring migration! We’ll look for warblers and all sorts of other migrants – and see if we can add to the 120 species on the park’s bird list. This...
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Spring Bird Walk List
What a wonderful (if rainy!) bird walk this morning in Glen Providence Park! Spring migration did not disappoint – led by Al Guarente, we identified 45 species of birds. The additions of Pine Warbler,...
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A WPA Pond
One of the most beloved features of the Glen Providence Park is the man-made pond at its center – created 80 years ago for fishing and skating! Like the other original park structures and trails, it...
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12-17-2016 Christmas Bird Count
Join Friends of Glen Providence Park in our 6th year participating in the Christmas Bird Count, the world’s longest-running Citizen Science survey! The CBC was started on Christmas Day 1900 by the...
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Christmas Bird Count 2016
Conditions were a bit challenging for our sixth Christmas Bird Count (CBC) in Glen Providence Park – it was freezing rain! The ground was slick, the sound of the rain made it difficult to hear the...
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5-6-2017 Spring Bird Walk
Join us for a bird walk in Glen Providence Park during spring migration! We’ll look for warblers and all sorts of other migrants, and see if we can add to the 127 species on the park’s bird list. This...
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Spring Bird Walk List
What a great turnout for our Spring Bird Walk in Glen Providence Park this morning – we had 22 people, including 2 kids, and 2 members of the Penncrest High School Envirothon team! We were led by Tom...
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12-16-2017 Christmas Bird Count
Join Friends of Glen Providence Park in our 7th year participating in the Christmas Bird Count, the world’s longest-running Citizen Science survey! The CBC was started on Christmas Day 1900 by the...
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Christmas Bird Count 2017
A congenial group of both new and long-time citizen scientist volunteers joined us on a 21-degree morning for our seventh Christmas Bird Count (CBC) in Glen Providence Park! It was hard to complain...
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5-5-2018 Spring Bird Walk
Join us for a bird walk in Glen Providence Park during spring migration! We’ll look for warblers and other migrants, and see if we can add to the 127 species on the Park Bird List. We will be led by...
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12-15-2018 Christmas Bird Count
Join Friends of Glen Providence Park in our 8th year participating in the Christmas Bird Count, the world’s longest-running Citizen Science survey! In this early-winter bird census, thousands of...
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Christmas Bird Count 2020
This morning we headed out in wintry Glen Providence Park for the Christmas Bird Count, our first monthly event since Covid-19. We limited attendance to eight masked and distanced people, each of whom...
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Spring Bird Walk List 2021
It was a beautiful spring morning on Saturday for our 9th Spring Bird Walk in Glen Providence Park! Alas, we had canceled last year’s due to Covid, so we were especially excited to hold the walk again...
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Christmas Bird Count 2021
The Saturday before Christmas, eight of us headed out on a very overcast morning in Glen Providence Park for the Christmas Bird Count. The air was damp, making it feel colder than the thermometer’s 40...
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Christmas Bird Count 2022
The Saturday before Christmas, nine of us ambled in Glen Providence Park on a beautiful, cold, sunny morning for the Christmas Bird Count. It has become a fond holiday tradition (and reunion!), with...
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