-1 degrees and overcast at the start.

Bird Highlight: long-tailed duck female already in breeding plumage

Photo by John Burns

Winter Bud Highlight: eastern cottonwood

Species list: mute swan, Canada goose, mallard, gadwall, greater scaup, bufflehead, long-tailed duck, common merganser, red-breasted merganser, ring-billed gull, downy woodpecker, black-capped chickadee, American robin, house sparrow, northern cardinal, American tree sparrow. (16 species)