Bird Highlight: American Pipit

Botany Highlight: Oriental Bittersweet

Species list: red-necked grebe, great blue heron, mute swan, Canada goose, mallard, American black duck, gadwall, American wigeon, bufflehead, long-tailed duck, red-breasted merganser, ring-billed gull, rock pigeon, blue jay, American crow, American robin, golden-crowned kinglet, American pipit, European starling, house sparrow,  northern cardinal, house finch, American goldfinch, dark-eyed junco, American tree` sparrow.  (25 species)

Miles Hearn

                                                               FALL POETRY

On random wires the rows of summer swallows

Wait for their liftoff.

They will soon be gone

Before All Saints’ and before All Hallows’

The changing time when we are most alone.

–May Sarton (1912–95)