5 degrees and sun / cloud mix at the start
Bird Highlight: Common Goldeneye
Common Goldeneye (female)
Botany Highlight: Sweetbrier
Sweetbrier (Rosa rubiginosa)
Species list: Canada goose, mallard, common goldeneye, hooded merganser, red-breasted merganser, ring-billed gull, mourning dove, hairy woodpecker, red-bellied woodpecker, American crow, black-capped chickadee, house sparrow, northern cardinal, American goldfinch. (14 species)
American crows
Poison Ivy (Toxicodendron rydbergii)
Phragmites (Phragmites australis)
Fall Cankerworms (moth stage)
Mallards
Canada Geese
Mourning Dove
Hooded Merganser (male)
Miles Hearn
FALL POETRY
A touch of cold in the Autumn night
I walked abroad,
And saw the ruddy moon lean over a hedge
Like a red-faced farmer.
I did not stop to speak, but nodded;
And round about were the wistful stars
With white faces like town children.
–T. E. Hulme (1883–1917)