Bird Highlight: Redhead

Botany Highlight: Field Mustard

Species list: trumpeter swan, Canada goose, mallard, American black duck, redhead, bufflehead, red-breasted merganser, red-tailed hawk, ring-billed gull, rock pigeon, blue jay, common raven, northern cardinal, American tree sparrow, American goldfinch.  (15 species)

Miles Hearn

                                                         FALL POETRY

The mug of cider simmered slow,

The apples sputtered in a row,

And, close at hand, the basket stood

With nuts from brown October’s wood.

–John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)