-4 degrees and sun / cloud mix at the start
Bird Highlight: Snowy Owl
Snowy Owl (eating Gadwall)
Botany Highlight: European Pussy Willow
European Pussy Willow (Salix caprea)
Species list: red-necked grebe, mute swan, mallard, American black duck, gadwall, ring-necked duck, greater scaup, bufflehead, common goldeneye, long-tailed duck, red-breasted merganser, herring gull, ring-billed gull, rock pigeon, mourning dove, snowy owl, hairy woodpecker, downy woodpecker, blue jay, American crow, black-capped chickadee, American robin, European starling, house sparrow, common grackle, red-winged blackbird, northern cardinal, American goldfinch, dark-eyed junco, American tree sparrow, song sparrow (31 species)
Ring-necked Duck (female)
American Robin
Long-tailed Duck (female)
Buffleheads
Russian Olive (Elaeagnus angustifolia)
Red-breasted Merganser (male)
Red-necked Grebe
Gulls
Ring-billed Gulls
Miles Hearn
SPRING POETRY
Shine out, fair Sun, with all your heat, Show all your thousand-coloured light! Black Winter freezes [to]1 his seat; The grey wolf howls, he does so bite; Crookt Age on three knees creeps the street; The boneless fish close quaking lies And eats for cold his aching feet; The stars in icicles arise: Shine out, and make this winter night Our beauty's Spring, our Prince of Light! George Chapman - 1559? - 1634