Bird Highlight: American Black Duck

Botany Highlight: Red Oak

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