8 degrees, cloudy and very windy at the start.
Bird Highlight: Dark-eyed Junco
Dark-eyed Junco
Botany Highlight: Virgin’s Bower
Virgin’s Bower (Clematis virginiana)
Species list: hairy woodpecker, blue jay, American crow, black-capped chickadee, American robin, golden-crowned kinglet, cedar waxwing, dark-eyed junco. (8 species)
Norway Spruce (Picea abies)
Red Oak (Quercus rubra)
Maple-leaved Viburnum (Viburnum acerifolium)
Ironwood (Ostrya virginiana)
Zigzag Goldenrod (Solidago flexicaulis)
White Ash (Fraxinus americana)
Blue-stemmed Goldenrod (Solidago caesia)
Bitternut Hickory (Carya cordiformus)
Miles Hearn
FALL POETRY
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run.
–John Keats (1795–1821)