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