3 degrees, windy and overcast at the start
Bird Highlight: about a dozen male red-breasted mergansers chasing one female, ring-necked-duck, Cooper’s hawk
Ring-necked duck
Botany Notables: European and Asian lilac
Syringa vulgaris (common lilac)
Species list: red-necked grebe, double-crested cormorant, mute swan, trumpeter swan, Canada goose, mallard, American black duck, gadwall, ring-necked duck, greater scaup, common goldeneye, bufflehead, long-tailed duck, white-winged scoter, ruddy duck, hooded merganser, common merganser, red-breasted merganser, Cooper’s hawk, killdeer, great black-backed gull, herring gull, ring-billed gull, downy woodpecker, American robin, European starling, house sparrow, red-winged blackbird, common grackle, brown-headed cowbird, northern cardinal, house finch, American goldfinch, American tree sparrow, song sparrow. ( 35 species)