6 degrees and overcast at the start
Bird Highlight: Blue Jay
Species list: red-necked grebe, double-crested cormorant, great blue heron, mute swan, Canada goose, mallard, gadwall, American wigeon, greater scaup, long-tailed duck, ring-billed gull, northern flicker, blue jay, white-breasted nuthatch, red-breasted nuthatch, black-capped chickadee, American robin, golden-crowned kinglet, cedar waxwing, European starling, house sparrow, northern cardinal, American goldfinch, dark-eyed junco, song sparrow. (25 species)
Miles Hearn
FALL POETRY
A touch of cold in the Autumn night—
I walked abroad,
And saw the ruddy moon lean over a hedge
Like a red-faced farmer.
–T.E. Hulme (1883–1917)