11 degrees and raining at the start.
Bird Highlight: Wood Duck
Wood Ducks
Botany Highlight: White Oak
White Oak (Quercus alba)
Species list: mute swan, mallard, wood duck, northern shoveler, rock pigeon, downy woodpecker, blue jay, black-capped chickadee, white-breasted nuthatch, American robin, ruby-crowned kinglet, house sparrow, northern cardinal, white-throated sparrow. (14 species)
Sheep Fescue grass with Willow leaf
Flowering Cherry (Prunus serrulata)
Sky Blue Aster (Symphyotrichum oolentangiense)
mostly Sassafras (Sassafras albidum)
New England Aster (Symphyotrichum novae-angliae)
Mallard (male)
Ginkgo fruit (Ginkgo biloba)
Miles Hearn
NATURE POETRY
A birdnote sounding here and there,
A bloom, where leaves are brown and sober,
Warm noons, and nights with frosty air,
And loaded wagons say, October.
A bloom, where leaves are brown and sober,
Warm noons, and nights with frosty air,
And loaded wagons say, October.
– Thomas Collier (1842–93)