7 degrees and overcast at the start

Bird Highlight: Trumpeter Swan

Botany Highlight: Heart-leaved Aster

Species list: double-crested cormorant, trumpeter swan, Canada goose, mallard, American black duck, bufflehead, redhead, turkey vulture, ring-billed gull, rock pigeon, downy woodpecker, blue jay, common raven, black-capped chickadee, white-breasted nuthatch, American robin, golden-crowned kinglet, cedar waxwing, northern cardinal, American goldfinch, dark-eyed junco, song sparrow.  (22 species)

Miles Hearn

                              NATURE POETRY

Now by great marshes wrapt in mist,
Or past some river’s mouth,
Throughout the long, still autumn day
Wild birds are flying south.

– William Wilfred Campbell (1858–1918)