11 degrees and sun / cloud mix at the start.
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Botany Highlight: Glossy Buckthorn
Glossy Buckthorn (Frangula alnus)
Species list: mallard, wood duck, northern shoveler, sharp-shinned hawk, ring-billed gull, hairy woodpecker, blue jay, black-capped chickadee, white-breasted nuthatch, American robin, ruby-crowned kinglet, golden-crowned kinglet, yellow-rumped warbler, house sparrow, northern cardinal, white-throated sparrow. (16 species)
Horse-chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum)
Sky-blue Aster (Symphyotrichum oolentangiense)
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Wood Duck (male)
Wood Duck (female)
Northern Shoveler (male)
Coyote
Miles Hearn
NATURE POETRY
Here was October, here
Was ruddy October, the old harvester,
Wrapped like a beggared sachem in a coat
Of tattered tanager and partridge feathers.
– Stephen Vincent Benét (1898–1943)