4 degrees and overcast at the start
Bird Highlight: Great Blue Heron
Species list: red-necked grebe, double-crested cormorant, great blue heron, mute swan, Canada goose, mallard, American black duck, gadwall, northern shoveler, redhead, greater scaup, common goldeneye, long-tailed duck, bufflehead, hooded merganser, red-breasted merganser, ring-billed gull, belted kingfisher, downy woodpecker, house sparrow, northern cardinal, dark-eyed junco, American tree sparrow, song sparrow. (24 species)
Miles Hearn
FALL POETRY
The trees are in their autumn beauty,
The woodland paths are dry,
Under the October twilight the water
Mirrors a still sky.
–William Butler Yeats (1865–1939