15 degrees and sun / cloud mix at the start.
Northern Shovelers
Botany Highlight: Smooth Aster
Smooth Aster (Symphyotrichum laeve)
Species list: double-crested cormorant, great blue heron, black-crowned night heron, Canada goose, mallard, green-winged teal, wood duck, northern shoveler, ring-billed gull, downy woodpecker, blue jay, black-capped chickadee, red-breasted nuthatch, white-breasted nuthatch, American robin, gray catbird, house sparrow, red-winged blackbird, northern cardinal, American goldfinch. (20 species)
Great Blue Heron
Ginkgo fruit (Ginkgo biloba)
Scotch Pine cones (Pinus sylvestris)
Mallard (female) on the left and two Green-winged Teals on the right.
Sugar Maple (Acer saccharum)
Wood Duck (male)
Butter-and-eggs (Linaria vulgaris)
Monarch Butterfly
Miles Hearn
NATURE POETRY
Over! the sweet summer closes,
The reign of the roses is done.
– Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–92)