17 degrees and cloudy at the start.
Bird Highlight: Great Blue Heron
Great Blue Heron
Botany Highlight: Tansy
Tansy (Tanacetum vulgare)
Species list: great blue heron, mallard, wood duck, sharp-shinned hawk, red-tailed hawk, ring-billed gull, mourning dove, northern flicker, hairy woodpecker, downy woodpecker, blue jay, black-capped chickadee, white-breasted nuthatch, American robin, cedar waxwing, house sparrow, northern cardinal, American goldfinch, white-crowned sparrow, white-throated sparrow, song sparrow. (21 species)
Common Burdock (Arctium minus)
White Campion (Silene latifolia)
Poison Ivy (Toxicodendron rydbergii)
Virginia Creeper (Parthenocissus inserta)
Black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta)
Basswood (Tilia americana)
Viper’s Bugloss (Echium vulgare)
Evening Primrose (Oenothera pilosella)
Miles Hearn