5 degrees and rain at the start
Bird Highlight: leucistic Trumpeter Swan
leucistic Trumpeter Swan
Botany Highlight: White Cedar
White Cedar (Thuja occidentalis)
Species list: trumpeter swan, Canada goose, mallard, American black duck, bufflehead, long-tailed duck, red-breasted merganser, ring-billed gull, rock pigeon, hairy woodpecker, black-capped chickadee, white-breasted nuthatch, European starling, northern cardinal. (14 species)
Wild Cucumber (Echinocystis lobata)
Manitoba Maple (Acer negundo)
Dog-strangling Vine (Vincetoxicum rossicum)
Black Walnut (Juglans nigra)
Fall Cankerworm
Canada Goose
American Black Duck
Bufflehead (male)
Autumn Olive (Elaeangnus umbellata)
Miles Hearn
FALL POETRY
A springful of larks in a rolling
Cloud and the roadside bushes brimming with whistling
Blackbirds and the sun of October
–Dylan Thomas (1914–53)