7 degrees and sun / cloud mix at the start
Bird Highlight: Canada Geese
Canada Geese
Botany Highlight: Reed Canary Grass
Reed Canary Grass (Phalaris arundinacea)
Species list: black-crowned night heron, Canada goose, mallard, American black duck, common goldeneye, hooded merganser, red-breasted merganser, red-tailed hawk, ring-billed gull, hairy woodpecker, downy woodpecker, black-capped chickadee, American robin, house sparrow, northern cardinal, American goldfinch, dark-eyed junco. (17 species)
Teasle (Dipsacus fullonum)
Silver Maple (Acer saccharinum)
Riverbank Grape growing on Ash Tree
Red-tailed Hawk
Tartarian Honeysuckle (Lonicera tatarica)
American Black Duck with Mallards
Red Ash (Fraxinus pennsylvanica)
Panicled Aster (Symphyotrichum lanceolatum)
Miles Hearn
FALL POETRY
O hushed October morning mild,
Thy leaves have ripened to the fall;
Tomorrow’s wind, if it be wild,
Should waste them all.
–Robert Frost (1874–1963