17 degrees and cloudy at the start
Bird Highlight: European Starling
Species list: mallard, wood duck, ring-billed gull, northern flicker, hairy woodpecker, downy woodpecker, red-bellied woodpecker,eastern pewee, black-capped chickadee, red-breasted nuthatch, white-breasted nuthatch, gray catbird, American robin, wood thrush, blue-gray gnatcatcher, cedar waxwing, European starling, warbling vireo, red-eyed vireo, house sparrow, red-winged blackbird, Baltimore oriole, common grackle, northern cardinal, indigo bunting, house finch, chipping sparrow, song sparrow. (28 species)
Miles Hearn
NATURE POETRY
“Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.”
– Voltaire (1694–1778)