8 degrees and sunny at the start.
Cattle Egret
Botany Highlight: Oriental Bittersweet
Oriental Bittersweet (Celastrus orbiculatis)
Species list: red-necked grebe, cattle egret, black-crowned night heron, mute swan, Canada goose, mallard, American black duck, gadwall, northern shoveler, bufflehead, red-breasted merganser, American coot, herring gull, ring-billed gull, hairy woodpecker, downy woodpecker, black-capped chickadee, white-breasted nuthatch, golden-crowned kinglet, European starling, house sparrow, northern cardinal, house finch, American goldfinch. (24 species)
Witch Hazel (Hamamelis virginiana)
European Pussy Willow (Salix caprea)
Northern Shoveler
Squirrel Nest
Eastern Grey Squirrel on Wych Elm
American Coot
Red-breasted Merganser
Mute Swan
Miles Hearn