Climax Sugar Maple in the Don Valley: October 1, 2020

Sugar Maple has come a long way this year from this:

and this:

to this:

and this:

and now:

Enjoy it because soon it will be:

Other botany:

I was able to photograph this little beauty:

Bird species list: belted kingfisher, hairy woodpecker, downy woodpecker, blue jay, black-capped chickadee, red-breasted nuthatch, American robin, northern cardinal, American goldfinch, song sparrow. (10 species)

Today’s group:

Park views:

NATURE POETRY

Here and yonder, high and low,
Goldenrod and sunflowers glow.             – Robert Kelley Weeks (1840–76)  

Miles Hearn