9 degrees and sunny at the start

Bird Highlight: Cooper’s Hawk

Botany Highlight: Cottonwood buds opening:

Species list: red-necked grebe, double-crested cormorant, mute swan, Canada goose, mallard, gadwall,  bufflehead, long-tailed duck,  red-breasted merganser, Cooper’s hawk, American coot, herring gull, ring-billed gull, Caspian tern, rock pigeon, mourning dove, belted kingfisher, northern flicker, downy woodpecker, tree swallow, black-capped chickadee, brown creeper,  American robin, hermit thrush, ruby-crowned kinglet, golden-crowned kinglet, European starling, house sparrow, red-winged blackbird, common grackle, brown-headed cowbird, northern cardinal, house finch, American goldfinch, dark-eyed junco, American tree sparrow, white-throated sparrow, song sparrow.  (38 species)