-9 degrees and sun / cloud mix at the start
Bird Highlight: Belted Kingfisher
Belted Kingfisher
Botany Highlight: American Beech
American Beech (Fagus grandifolia)
Species list: Canada goose, mallard, common goldeneye, common merganser, herring gull, mourning dove, belted kingfisher, red-bellied woodpecker, hairy woodpecker, downy woodpecker, blue jay, black-capped chickadee, white-breasted nuthatch, brown creeper, American robin, European starling, house sparrow, house finch, American goldfinch, dark-eyed junco. (20 species)
Mourning Dove
Woodpecker Damage on Eastern Hemlock (Tsuga canadensis)
Common Merganser (male)
Manitoba Maple (Acer negundo)
Mallards
Miscanthus (Miscanthus sacchariflorus)
Canada Geese
Crown Gall on Crack Willow (Salix fragilis)
Miles Hearn
WINTER POETRY
Announced by all the trumpets of the sky,
Arrives the snow, and, driving o’er the fields,
Seems nowhere to alight: the whited air
Hides hills and woods, the river, and the heaven,
And veils the farmhouse at the garden’s end.
–Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82)