4 degrees and overcast at the start
Bird Highlight: Herring Gull
Species list: great blue heron, Cooper’s hawk, herring gull, blue jay, black-capped chickadee, American robin, northern cardinal. (7 species)
Miles Hearn
NATURE POETRY
Oh, good gigantic smile o’ the brown old earth,
This autumn morning! How he sets his bones
To bask i’ the sun, and thrusts out knees and feet
For the ripple to run over in its mirth;
Listening the while, where on the heap of stones
The white breast of the sea-lark twitters sweet.
– Robert Browning (1812–89)