4 degrees, very windy and mostly cloudy at the start
Bird Highlight: Red-bellied Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker (female)
Red-bellied Woodpecker (female)
Botany Highlight: European Buckthorn
European Buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica)
Species list: red-tailed hawk, ring-billed gull, mourning dove, red-bellied woodpecker, hairy woodpecker, downy woodpecker, black-capped chickadee, American robin, golden-crowned kinglet, brown-headed cowbird, northern cardinal, dark-eyed junco, American goldfinch. (13 species)
Red Squirrel
Motherwort (leaves from last season) Leonurus cardiaca
Mourning Dove
Red Oak acorn (Quercus rubra)
Black-capped Chickadee
Polypores
American Robin
Brown-headed Cowbirds (male)
Miles Hearn
NATURE POETRY
The Sun, with all those planets revolving around it
and dependent upon it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes
as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
– Galileo Galilei (1564–1642)