3 degrees and overcast at the start
Bird Highlight: Great Blue Heron
Species list: mute swan, mallard, American black duck, gadwall, common goldeneye, long-tailed duck, bufflehead, hooded merganser, red-breasted merganser, greater black-backed gull, ring-billed gull, rock pigeon, black-capped chickadee, European starling, house sparrow, northern cardinal, American goldfinch. (17 species)
Miles Hearn
FALL POETRY
‘What do you hunt, Orion,
This starry night?’
‘The Ram, the Bull and the Lion,
And the Great Bear,’ says Orion.
– Robert Graves (1895–1985)