10 degrees and overcast at the start
Bird Highlight: Trumpeter Swan
Species list: double-crested cormorant, great blue heron, trumpeter swan, Canada goose, mallard, American black duck, bufflehead, long-tailed duck, ring-billed gull, rock pigeon, American crow, hairy woodpecker, downy woodpecker, Carolina wren, American robin, golden-crowned kinglet, blackburnian warbler, northern cardinal, American goldfinch. (19 species)
Miles Hearn
FALL POETRY
Now by the brook the maple leans
With all his glory spread,
And all the sumachs on the hills
Have turned their green to red.
–William Wilfred Campbell (1861–1918