16 degrees and sunny at the start
Bird Highlight: Great Blue Heron
Great Blue Heron
Botany Highlight: Late Goldenrod
Late Goldenrod (Solidago gigantea)
Species list: double-crested cormorant, great blue heron, mute swan, Canada goose, mallard, wood duck, red-breasted merganser, ring-billed gull, belted kingfisher, northern flicker, hairy woodpecker, downy woodpecker, eastern phoebe, blue jay, American crow, black-capped chickadee, white-breasted nuthatch, gray catbird, American robin, warbling vireo, northern cardinal, American goldfinch. (22 species)
Wood Ducks
Poison Ivy (Toxicodendron rydbergii)
Jack O’Lantern
Japanese Knotweed (Fallopia japonica)
Yellow Garden Spider (Argiope aurantia)
Beaked hazel (Corylus cornuta)
Arrow-leaved Aster (Symphyotrichum urophyllum)
Reed (Phragmites australis)
Miles Hearn