0 degrees and overcast at the start
Bird Highlight: Wood Duck
Wood Duck (female)
Botany Highlight: Trembling Aspen
Trembling Aspen beginning to flower (Populus tremuloides)
Species list: Canada goose, mallard, American black duck, wood duck, lesser scaup, common goldeneye, bufflehead, red-breasted merganser, red-tailed hawk, ring-billed gull, greater black-backed gull, hairy woodpecker, downy woodpecker, American crow, black-capped chickadee, American robin, European starling, house sparrow, northern cardinal, song sparrow (singing). (20 species)
White Spruce (Picea glauca)
White-winged Scoter
Deer scat
Queen Anne’s Lace (Daucus carota)
American Black Duck
Eastern Cottonwood leaf (Populus deltoides)
Common Goldeneyes
Red Ash (Fraxinus pennsylvanica)
Miles Hearn
Some photos by Ken Sproule from February 21 at Humber Bay
Red-winged Blackbird
Redhead
Ring-necked Duck (male: foreground) with Bufflehead (female)
Northern Cardinal (female)
WINTER POETRY
The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
– Robert Frost (1874–1963)