Bird Highlight: Double-crested Cormorant

Botany Highlight: Periwinkle

Species list: red-necked grebe,  double-crested cormorant, green heron,  mute swan,  Canada goose, mallard, long-tailed duck, red-breasted merganser, ring-billed gull, common tern, Caspian tern, rock pigeon, belted kingfisher, hairy woodpecker, downy woodpecker,  tree swallow, barn swallow, rough-winged swallow, gray catbird,  American robin, European starling, warbling vireo, yellow warbler, yellow-rumped warbler, black and white warbler, house sparrow, red-winged blackbird, Baltimore oriole, common grackle, brown-headed cowbird, northern cardinal, American goldfinch, white-crowned sparrow, white-throated sparrow, song sparrow.  (35 species)

Miles Hearn

                                               NATURE POETRY

The grass of spring covers the prairies,
The bean bursts noiselessly through the mould in the garden,
The delicate spear of the onion pierces upward,
The apple-buds cluster together on the apple-branches.

– Walt Whitman (1819–92)