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Bird Highlight: Long-tailed Duck
Species list: mute swan, Canada goose, mallard, gadwall, long-tailed duck, lesser scaup, common goldeneye, bufflehead, long-tailed duck, red-breasted merganser, ring-billed gull, downy woodpecker, black-capped chickadee, American robin, northern cardinal, American goldfinch. (16 species)
Miles Hearn
FALL POETRY
Listen . . .
With faint dry sound,
Like steps of passing ghosts,
The leaves, frost-crisp’d, break from the trees
And fall.
–Adellaide Crapsey (1878–1914)