16 degrees and overcast at the start
High Park
Bird Highlight: Orchard Oriole
Orchard Oriole (Wikimedia)
Botany Highlight: Dewberry
Dewberry (Rubus flagellaris)
Species list: black-crowned night heron, Canada goose, mallard, wood duck, Cooper’s hawk, ring-billed gull, mourning dove, chimney swift, belted kingfisher, hairy woodpecker, downy woodpecker, eastern kingbird, eastern pewee, tree swallow, blue jay, black-capped chickadee, white-breasted nuthatch, red-breasted nuthatch, American robin, blue-grey gnatcatcher, cedar waxwing, European starling, red-eyed vireo, warbling vireo, yellow warbler, American redstart, house sparrow, red-winged blackbird, orchard oriole, baltimore oriole, common grackle, brown-headed cowbird, northern cardinal, indigo bunting, American goldfinch, chipping sparrow, song sparrow. (37 species)
Bush Honeysuckle (Diervilla lonicera)
Pale-leaved Sunflower (Helianthus strumosus)
Huckleberry (Gaylussacia baccata)
Wood Duck family
Yellow Avens (Geum aleppicum)
Wild Lupine (Lupinus perennis)
Star-flowered False Solomon Seal (Maianthemum stellatum)
Cooper’s Hawk
