5 degrees and overcast at the start
Bird Highlight: many hooded mergansers
Botany Highlight: spotted knapweed in flower
Centaurea stoebe (Spotted knapweed)
Species list: red-necked grebe, Canada goose, mallard, gadwall, American wigeon, redhead, greater scaup, bufflehead, long-tailed duck, ruddy duck, hooded merganser, common merganser, red-breasted merganser, herring gull, ring-billed gull, black-capped chickadee, European starling. (17 species)