Bird Highlight: Red-necked Grebe

Botany Highlight:  Wayfaring Tree

Species list: red-necked grebe, horned grebe, double-crested cormorant, mute swan, Canada goose, mallard, gadwall, lesser scaup, common goldeneye, bufflehead, long-tailed duck, red-breasted merganser, herring gull, ring-billed gull, rock pigeon, belted kingfisher, downy woodpecker, tree swallow, golden-crowned kinglet, European starling, American robin, house sparrow, red-winged blackbird, common grackle, brown-headed cowbird, northern cardinal,  rufous-sided towhee, American goldfinch, dark-eyed junco, white-throated sparrow, song sparrow.  (31 species)

Miles Hearn

                                            NATURE POETRY

The wild and windy March once more
Has shut his gates of sleet,
And given us back the April-time,
So fickle and so sweet.

– Alice Cary (1820–71)