8 degrees overcast and windy at the start

Bird Highlight: double-crested cormorant

Double-crested cormorant (photo: Judy Cazemier)

Botany Highlight: hardhack shrub

Spirea tomentosa (Hardhack)

Species list: double-crested cormorant, Canada goose, mallard, American black duck, gadwall, bufflehead, long-tailed duck, common merganser, red-breasted merganser, herring gull, ring-billed gull, downy woodpecker, black-capped chickadee, golden-crowned kinglet, northern cardinal, American goldfinch, American tree sparrow.

(17 species)