Today was the final Fall walk and, appropriately, conditions were winter-like with snow falling and a temperature of -2 degrees.
Park scenes:






















Species list: Canada goose, mallard, American black duck, hooded merganser, herring gull, ring-billed gull, downy woodpecker, American crow, black-capped chickadee, northern cardinal, American goldfinch. (11 species)






Today’s group:

NATURE POETRY
There comes the sound of childish feet
And childish laughter loud and sweet,
And little hands stretch eager palms
To beg the firelight’s golden alms. – James Berry Bensel (1903–85)
Miles Hearn