5 degrees and drizzle throughout
Bird Highlight: Long-tailed Duck
Species list: mute swan, mallard, gadwall, lesser scaup, common goldeneye, bufflehead, long-tailed duck, red-breasted merganser, ring-billed gull, downy woodpecker, black-capped chickadee, American robin, red-winged blackbird, common grackle, American goldfinch, song sparrow. (16 species)
Miles Hearn
NATURE 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)