7 degrees and overcast at the start
Bird Highlight: Cedar Waxwing
Cedar Waxwings
Botany Highlight: Norway Spruce
Norway Spruce roots exposed by erosion.
Species list: red-necked grebe, mute swan, Canada goose, mallard, gadwall, American wigeon, greater scaup, bufflehead, long-tailed duck, red-breasted merganser, herring gull, ring-billed gull, rock pigeon, blue jay, American robin, golden-crowned kinglet, cedar waxwing, house sparrow, northern cardinal, American goldfinch, dark-eyed junco, American tree sparrow. (22 species)
Red-necked Grebe
Long-tailed Ducks (female)
Golden-crowned Kinglet
American Wigeons
Gadwall (male)
raft of Greater Scaup
Canada Goose
Mallards (males)
Miles Hearn
FALL POETRY
Summer ends now; now, barbarous in beauty, the stooks arise
Around; up above, what wind-walks! what lovely behaviour
Of silk-sack clouds! has wilder, wilful-wavier
Meal-drift moulded ever and melted across skies?
–Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89)