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)