Bird Highlight: Black-capped Chickadee

Botany Highlight: Austrian Pine

Species list:  Canada goose, mallard, American black duck, gadwall, lesser scaup, common goldeneye, long-tailed duck, common merganser, red-breasted merganser, ring-billed gull, hairy woodpecker, black-capped chickadee, golden-crowned kinglet, northern cardinal, American goldfinch, dark-eyed junco.  (16 species)

Miles Hearn

                                                  FALL POETRY

The maples ripen. Apples

come home crisp in bags.

This pear tastes good.

It rains lightly on the

random leaf patterns.

–James Marcus Schuyler (1923–92)