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Bird Highlight: Red-breasted Merganser
Species list: mute swan, Canada goose, mallard, American black duck, redhead, lesser scaup, common goldeneye, bufflehead, long-tailed duck, hooded merganser, common merganser, red-breasted merganser, herring gull, ring-billed gull, mourning dove, hairy woodpecker, downy woodpecker, blue jay, black-capped chickadee, white-breasted nuthatch, American robin, European starling, house sparrow, red-winged blackbird, common grackle, northern cardinal, house finch, American goldfinch. (28 species)
Miles Hearn
WINTER POETRY
The night’s drifts
Pile up below me and behind my back,
Slide down the hill, rise again, and build
Eerie little dunes on the roof of the house.
–James Wright (1927–1980)