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Bird Highlight: Long-tailed Duck
Species list: Canada goose, mallard, American black duck, gadwall, lesser scaup, common goldeneye, long-tailed duck, bufflehead, common merganser, red-breasted merganser, ring-billed gull, black-capped chickadee, northern cardinal, American tree sparrow. (14 species)
Miles Hearn
FALL POETRY
October is the treasurer of the year,
And all the months pay bounty to her store;
The fields and orchards still their tribute bear,
And fill her brimming coffers more and more.
–Paul Lawrence Dunbar (1872–1906)