4 degrees and overcast at the start
Bird Highlight: Hooded Merganser
Species list: double-crested cormorant, mute swan, Canada goose, mallard, gadwall, American wigeon, northern shoveler, common goldeneye, long-tailed duck, bufflehead, hooded merganser, ring-billed gull, rock pigeon, black-capped chickadee, house sparrow, northern cardinal, American tree sparrow. (17 species)
Miles Hearn
FALL POETRY
Here was October, here
Was ruddy October, the old harvester,
Wrapped like a beggared sachem in a coat
Of tattered tanager and partridge feathers.
–Stephen Vincent Benet (1898–1943