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Bird Highlight: Long-tailed Duck
Long-tailed Duck (female) photo: Marlene Danicki
Botany Highlight: Tamarack
Tamarack (Larix laricina)
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)
Bald-faced Hornet’s nest
Canada Goldenrod (Solidago canadensis)
Red Osier Dogwood (Cornus sericea)
Northern Cardinal (female)
Kentucky Coffee Tree (Gymnocladus dioicus)
Staghorn Sumac (Rhus typhina)
Tamarack (Larix laricina)
Common Burdock (Arctium minus)
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)