Bird Highlight: American Coot

Botany Highlight: Snowberry

Species list: mute swan, mallard, American black duck, gadwall, greater scaup, lesser scaup, long-tailed duck, bufflehead, common merganser, American coot, ring-billed gull.  (11 species)

Miles Hearn

                                                             FALL POETRY

A birdnote sounding here and there,

A bloom, where leaves are brown and sober,

Warm noons, and nights with frosty air,

And loaded wagons say, October.

– Thomas Stephens Collier (1842–93)