Bird Highlight: Long-tailed Duck

Botany Highlight: Scots Pine

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)