13 degrees and overcast at the start.
Mallards
Botany Highlight: Hog-peanut
Hog-peanut (Amphicarpaea bracteata)
Species list: Canada goose, mallard, northern flicker, blue jay, black-capped chickadee, white-breasted nuthatch, gray catbird, common yellowthroat, northern cardinal. (9 species)
Multiflora Rose (Rosa multiflora)
Canada Thistle (Cirsium arvense)
Panicled Aster (Symphyotrichum lanceolatum)
Black Walnut (Juglans nigra)
Pale Jewelweed (Impatiens pallida)
Calico Aster (Symphyotrichum lateriflorum)
Northern Flicker
Beggar-ticks (Bidens frondosa)
Himalayan Balsam (Impatiens grandulifera)
Miles Hearn
NATURE POETRY
The dawn laughs out on orient hills
And dances with the diamond rills;
The ambrosial wind but faintly stirs
The silken, beaded gossamers.
– Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874–1942)