Bird Highlight: American Robin

Botany Highlight: Horse Chestnut

Species list: Canada goose, mallard, American black duck, lesser scaup, common goldeneye, bufflehead, long-tailed duck, red-breasted merganser, herring gull, ring-billed gull, mourning dove, hairy woodpecker, downy woodpecker, blue jay, American crow, black-capped chickadee, white-breasted nuthatch, American robin, house sparrow,  northern cardinal, American goldfinch.  (21 species)

Miles Hearn

                                             WINTER POETRY

The sprawling Bear
Growled deep in the sky;
And Orion’s hair
Streamed sparkling by:
But the North sighed low,
“Snow, snow, more snow!”

–Walter de la Mare (1873–1956)