7 degrees and overcast at the start
Bird Highlight: pied-billed grebe, chipping and white-throated sparrow
Botany Highlight: Siberian, white and Scotch elm, shepherd’s purse, field pennycress
Species list: red-necked grebe, horned grebe, pied-billed grebe, double-crested cormorant, black-crowned heron, mute swan, Canada goose, mallard, gadwall, greater scaup, lesser scaup, bufflehead, long-tailed duck, red-breasted merganser, American coot, killdeer, ring-billed gull, mourning dove, rock dove, common flicker, yellow-bellied sapsucker,tree swallow, barn swallow, American crow, black-capped chickadee, brown creeper, northern mockingbird, American robin, hermit thrush, golden-crowned kinglet, ruby-crowned kinglet, European starling, yellow-rumped warbler, house sparrow, red-winged blackbird, common grackle, brown-headed cowbird, northern cardinal, house finch, American goldfinch, dark-eyed junco, chipping sparrow,white-throated sparrow, song sparrow. (44 species))