Bird Highlight: Red-breasted Merganser

Botany Highlight: Large-leaved Aster

Species list: Canada goose, mallard, red-breasted merganser, red-tailed hawk, herring gull, ring-billed gull, red-bellied woodpecker, hairy woodpecker, downy woodpecker, American crow, black-capped chickadee, American robin, house sparrow, northern cardinal, American goldfinch.  (15 species)

Miles Hearn

                                                                FALL POETRY

October’s face, benign and mellow,

Turns nuts to brown and leaves to yellow;

But (like the Scorpion, sting in tail)

He ends with frost and scourging hail.

– Jan Struther (1901–53)