-4 degrees and sunny at the start
Species list: mute swan, trumpeter swan, Canada goose, mallard, American black duck, bufflehead, herring gull, ring-billed gull, mourning dove, rock pigeon, downy woodpecker, blue jay, American crow, downy woodpecker, black-capped chickadee, white-breasted nuthatch, American robin, European starling, house sparrow, red-winged blackbird, northern cardinal, American tree sparrow. (22 species)
WINTER POETRY
There, on the black bough of a snow-flecked maple,
Fearless and gay as our love,
A bluejay cocked his crest!
Oh who can tell the range of joy
Or set the bounds of beauty?
– Sara Teasdale (1884–1933)
Miles Hearn