4 degrees and overcast at the start
Bird Highlight: Ring-billed Gull
Species list: Canada goose, mallard, red-tailed hawk, American kestrel, ring-billed gull, belted kingfisher, hairy woodpecker, downy woodpecker, American crow, black-capped chickadee, American robin, house sparrow, northern cardinal, American goldfinch, dark-eyed junco, white-throated sparrow. (16 species)
Miles Hearn
FALL POETRY
O Suns and skies and clouds of June,
And flowers of June together,
Ye cannot rival for one hour
October’s bright blue weather;
When loud the bumblebee makes haste,
Belated, thriftless vagrant,
And goldenrod is dying fast,
And lanes with grapes are fragrant.
–Helen Hunt Jackson (1830–85)