22 degrees and overcast at the start
Species list: double-crested cormorant, Canada goose, mallard, killdeer, spotted sandpiper, ring-billed gull, rock pigeon, belted kingfisher, northern flicker, red-bellied woodpecker, hairy woodpecker, downy woodpecker, great crested flycatcher, tree swallow, American crow, gray catbird, American robin, cedar waxwing, European starling, red-eyed vireo, warbling vireo, yellow warbler, house sparrow, red-winged blackbird, Baltimore Oriole, common grackle, brown-headed cowbird, scarlet tanager, northern cardinal, rose-breasted grosbeak, American goldfinch, song sparrow. (32 species)
Miles Hearn
NATURE POETRY
This is the weather the cuckoo likes,
And so do I;
When showers betumble the chestnut spikes,
And nestlings fly.
– Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)