Thank-you to Jan Steen for some photos from Florida of an owl family and an osprey.
2 degrees and cloudy at the start
Bird Highlight: Gadwall
Gadwall
Botany Highlight: European Black Alder
Black Alder (Alnus glutinosa)
Species list: red-necked grebe, mute swan, Canada goose, mallard, gadwall, greater scaup, lesser scaup, common goldeneye, bufflehead, long-tailed duck, red-breasted merganser, American coot, herring gull, ring-billed gull, rock pigeon, downy woodpecker, black-capped chickadee, American robin, European starling, house sparrow, red-winged blackbird, common grackle, northern cardinal, house finch, song sparrow. (25 species)
Buffleheads
Ring-billed Gulls with a Herring Gull to the right and a female Goldeneye behind
Hedge-parsley (Torilis japonica)
Mute Swan
Northern Cardinal (male)
American Coot
Common Grackle
European starling
Miles Hearn
Some photos by Jan Steen from Florida:
Osprey
Osprey
Great Horned Owl
Owl chicks
WINTER POETRY
In the depth of winter,
I finally learned that
within me there lay
an invincible summer.
– Albert Camus (1913-1960)