-3 degrees and sun / cloud mix at the start
Bird Highlight: Horned Grebe
Species list: horned grebe, double-crested cormorant, mute swan, Canada goose, mallard, American black duck, lesser scaup, common goldeneye, bufflehead, long-tailed duck, common merganser, red-breasted merganser, Cooper’s hawk, ring-billed gull, mourning dove, downy woodpecker, blue jay, black-capped chickadee, red-breasted nuthatch, winter wren, American robin, golden-crowned kinglet, European starling, house sparrow, red-winged blackbird, common grackle, brown-headed cowbird, northern cardinal, house finch, American goldfinch, dark-eyed junco, song sparrow. (32 species)
Miles Hearn
NATURE POETRY
All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair—
The bees are stirring—birds are on the wing—
And Winter slumbering in the open air,
Wears on his smiling face a dream of Spring!
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)