0 degrees and sunny at the start
Bird Highlight: European Starling
Botany Highlight: Oriental Bittersweet
Oriental Bittersweet (Celastrus orbiculatus)
Species list: red-necked grebe, mute swan, Canada goose, mallard, gadwall, American wigeon, redhead, greater scaup, bufflehead, long-tailed duck, red-breasted merganser, northern harrier, ring-billed gull, hairy woodpecker, downy woodpecker, blue jay, black-capped chickadee,white-breasted nuthatch, American robin, European starling, house sparrow, northern cardinal, American goldfinch, dark-eyed junco, fox sparrow, American tree sparrow. (26 species)
Mallard (male)
New England Aster (Symphyotrichum novae-angliae)
House Sparrows
approx 750 Greater Scaup with a few Redheads mixed in
American Wigeons
Mute Swan
White-breasted Nuthatch
Canada Goose
Miles Hearn
FALL POETRY
Now by great marshes wrapt in mist,
Or past some river’s mouth,
Throughout the long, still autumn day
Wild birds are flying south.
–Wilfred Campbell (1861–1918)