5 degrees and sunny at the start
Bird Highlight: Hooded Merganser
Species list: double-crested cormorant, mute swan, Canada goose, mallard, American black duck, gadwall, redhead, common goldeneye, long-tailed duck, bufflehead, ruddy duck, red-breasted merganser, hooded merganser, ring-billed gull, rock pigeon, black-capped chickadee, house sparrow, northern cardinal, house finch, American tree sparrow. (20 species)
Miles Hearn
FALL POETRY
All day I have watched the purple vine leaves
Fall into the water.
And now in the moonlight they still fall,
But each leaf is fringed with silver.
–Amy Lowell (1874–1925)