Bird Highlight: Gadwall

Botany Highlight: Red Pine

Species list: red-necked grebe, mute swan, Canada goose, mallard, American black duck, gadwall, lesser scaup, greater scaup, common goldeneye, bufflehead, long-tailed duck, red-breasted merganser, herring gull, ring-billed gull, hairy woodpecker, American crow, black-capped chickadee, American robin, house sparrow,  red-winged blackbird, northern cardinal, American goldfinch.  (22 species)

Miles Hearn

                                              WINTER POETRY

The cold earth slept below;
Above the cold sky shone.

– Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)