Photography was challenging on this day.
Several trees have been uprooted
3 degrees, heavy rain and strong winds at the start
Bird Highlight: Long-tailed Duck
Long-tailed Duck (male)
Botany Highlight: Golden Weeping Willow
Golden Weeping Willow (Salix babylonica)
Species list: double-crested cormorant, mute swan, Canada goose, mallard, gadwall, bufflehead, long-tailed duck, red-breasted merganser, herring gull, ring-billed gull, rock pigeon, barn swallow, tree swallow, European starling, red-winged blackbird, common grackle, brown-headed cowbird, northern cardinal, American goldfinch, dark-eyed junco, song sparrow. (21 species)
Mute Swan
Buffleheads
American Robin
Rock Pigeons
Gadwall (male)
Dark-eyed Junco
Mallard (female)
Tartarian Honeysuckle (Lonicera tatarica)
Double-crested Cormorant
Canada Goose
Herring Gull (immature) with fish (Rainbow Trout)
Red-winged Blackbird (male)
Ring-billed Gull
Miles Hearn
NATURE POETRY
We like March, his shoes are purple
He is new and high;
Makes he mud for dog and peddler,
Makes he forest dry.
– Emily Dickinson (1830–86)