4 degrees and overcast at the start
Bird Highlight: American Robin
American Robin
Botany Highlight: Austrian Pine
Austrian Pine (Pinus nigra)
Species list: mallard, red-tailed hawk, ring-billed gull, mourning dove, red-bellied woodpecker, downy woodpecker, blue jay, American crow, brown creeper, black-capped chickadee, white-breasted nuthatch, American robin, house sparrow, northern cardinal, American tree sparrow, dark-eyed junco. (16 species)
White Birch (Betula papyrifera)
Highbush Cranberry (Viburnum opulus)
Downy Woodpecker (female)
Mallard (male)
Northern Catalpa (Catalpa speciosa)
Miles Hearn
WINTER POETRY
Come when the rains
Have glazed the snow and clothes the trees with ice,
While the slant sun of February pours
Into the bowers a flood of light.
–William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878)