5 degrees and overcast at the start
Bird Highlight: Pileated Woodpecker
Species list: Canada goose, mallard, American black duck, ring-billed gull, mourning dove, pileated woodpecker, hairy woodpecker, downy woodpecker, blue jay, black-capped chickadee, white-breasted nuthatch, red-breasted nuthatch, American robin, European starling, house sparrow, red-winged blackbird, common grackle, brown-headed cowbird, northern cardinal, American goldfinch, dark-eyed junco, American tree sparrow, song sparrow. (23 species)
Miles Hearn
NATURE POETRY
Behold within the north a crimson light
That reaches to the heavens’ farthest height.
– Clinton Scollard (1860–1932)