7 degrees, sunny at the start
Bird Highlight: Hooded Merganser
Hooded Merganser
Botany Highlight: Nannyberry
Nannyberry (Viburnum lentago)
Species list: double-crested cormorant, mute swan, Canada goose, mallard, gadwall, northern shoveler, long-tailed duck, bufflehead, hooded merganser, herring gull, ring-billed gull, rock pigeon, black-capped chickadee, golden-crowned kinglet, house sparrow, American goldfinch. (16 species)
Gaswall (male)
Canada Geese
Great Blue Heron
Black-crowned Night Heron (immature)
Ring-billed Gull
Northern Shovelers
Mute Swan
Double-crested Cormorant
Miles Hearn
FALL POETRY
The dead leaves fall like noiseless rain,
The air is calm and warm and sweet;
Upon the woodland and the plain
The ghost of summer rests her feet.
–Clinton Scollard (1860–1932)