4 degrees and overcast at the start
Bird Highlight: Ring-billed Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Botany Highlight: Catnip
Catnip (Nepeta cataria)
Species list: Canada goose, mallard, red-tailed hawk, American kestrel, ring-billed gull, belted kingfisher, hairy woodpecker, downy woodpecker, American crow, black-capped chickadee, American robin, house sparrow, northern cardinal, American goldfinch, dark-eyed junco, white-throated sparrow. (16 species)
Wild Cucumber (Echinocystis lobata)
Sensitive Fern
White Pine cone (Pinus strobus)
Red-backed Salamander
Large-leaved Aster (Eurybia macrophylla)
Tartarian Honeysuckle (Lonicera tatarica)
Coyote (we saw a pack of 3)
American Robin
Miles Hearn
FALL POETRY
O Suns and skies and clouds of June,
And flowers of June together,
Ye cannot rival for one hour
October’s bright blue weather;
When loud the bumblebee makes haste,
Belated, thriftless vagrant,
And goldenrod is dying fast,
And lanes with grapes are fragrant.
–Helen Hunt Jackson (1830–85)