Bird Highlight: Hooded Merganser

Botany Highlight: Highbush Cranberry

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)