5 degrees and drizzle throughout
Bird Highlight: Long-tailed Duck
Long-tailed Duck (male)
Botany Highlight: Sea-buckthorn
Sea-buckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoides)
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)
Silver Maple (Acer saccharinum)
Buffleheads
Tamarack cone (left) and Larch cone (right)
Mute Swan
Scots Pine (Pinus sylvestris)
Lesser Scaup
Red Ash (Fraxinus pennsylvanica)
Spindle Tree (Euonymus europaea)
European Pussy Willow (Salix caprea)
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)