-7 degrees and snowing at the start
Bird Highlight: Long-tailed Duck
Botany Highlight: Wych Elm
Species list: mallard, American black duck, redhead, greater scaup, lesser scaup, common goldeneye, long-tailed duck, white-winged scoter, red-breasted merganser, ring-billed gull, downy woodpecker, blue jay, black-capped chickadee, white-breasted nuthatch, American robin, house sparrow, northern cardinal, American goldfinch. (18 species)
Miles Hearn
WINTER POETRY
When February sun shines cold,
There comes a day when in the air
The wings of winter
Slow unfold,
And show the golden summer there.
–Philip Savage (1868–99)