20 degrees and light rain at the start
Bird Highlight: Mute Swan
Mute Swan family
Botany Highlight: Spikenard
Spikenard (Aralia racemosa)
Species list: double-crested cormorant, great blue heron, green heron, mute swan, Canada goose, mallard, hooded merganser, Cooper’s hawk, lesser yellowlegs, ring-billed gull, belted kingfisher, downy woodpecker, great crested flycatcher, black-capped chickadee, white-breasted nuthatch, gray catbird, American robin, cedar waxwing, European starling, red-winged blackbird, common grackle, American goldfinch, song sparrow. (23 species)
Rattlesnake Master (Eryngium yuccifolium)
Pale Jewelweed (Impatiens pallida)
Witch Hazel (Hamamelis virginiana)
Cormorants
Great Angelica (Angelica atropurpurea)
Cinnamon Fern
Blue Vervain (Verbena hastata)
Shagbark Hickory (Carya ovata)
Miles Hearn