1 degree and overcast at the start
Bird Highlight: leucistic Trumpeter Swan
leucistic Trumpeter Swan
Botany Highlight: Miscanthus
Miscanthus (Miscanthus sacchariflorus)
Species list: trumpeter swan, Canada goose, mallard, American black duck, bufflehead, long-tailed duck, red-breasted merganser, red-tailed hawk, ring-billed gull, rock pigeon, red-bellied woodpecker, hairy woodpecker, downy woodpecker, blue jay, white-breasted nuthatch, American robin, house sparrow, northern cardinal, dark-eyed junco, American tree sparrow. (20 species)
Wild Cucumber (Echinocystis lobata)
Garlic Mustard (Alliaria petiolata)
Black Walnuts (Juglans nigra)
Frost
Northern Cardinal
Mallard (female)
Trumpeter Swan
Ring-billed Gull
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)