4 degrees and overcast at the start
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)
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)