5 degrees and overcast at the start
Bird Highlight: American Coot
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)