Bird Highlight: Gadwall

Botany Highlight: Silver Maple

Species list:  mallard, gadwall, American black duck, lesser scaup, common goldeneye, bufflehead, white-winged scoter, long-tailed duck, red-breasted merganser, common merganser, herring gull, ring-billed gull, mourning dove, downy woodpecker, black-capped chickadee, northern cardinal, American tree sparrow.  (17 species)

Miles Hearn

                                                   WINTER POETRY

Winter. Time to eat fat
and watch hockey. In the pewter mornings, the cat,
a black fur sausage with yellow
Houdini eyes, jumps up on the bed and tries
to get onto my head. It’s his
way of telling whether or not I’m dead.

–Margaret Atwood (b. 1939)