17 degrees with and cloudy at the start
Bird Highlight: Brown-headed Cowbird
Species list: turkey vulture, ring-billed gull, mourning dove, chimney swift, hairy woodpecker, downy woodpecker, great crested flycatcher, willow flycatcher, eastern pewee, blue jay, Carolina wren, gray catbird, American robin, cedar waxwing, European starling, warbling vireo, red-eyed vireo, yellow warbler, house sparrow, red-winged blackbird, Baltimore oriole, orchard oriole, common grackle, brown-headed cowbird, northern cardinal, indigo bunting, American goldfinch, song sparrow. (28 species)
Miles Hearn
NATURE POETRY
Come rambling awhile through this exquisite weather
Of days that are fleet to pass,
When the stem of the willow shoots out a green feather,
And buttercups burn in the grass!
– Edgar Fawcett (1847–1904)