For the Toronto Field Naturalists

10 degrees and sunny at the start

Lambton Woods

Bird Highlight: male Wood Duck romance with female Mallard

Wood Duck and his Mallard partner

Botany Highlight: Marsh Marigold

Marsh Marigold (Caltha palustris)

Species list:  Canada goose, mallard, American black duck, wood duck, red-tailed hawk, killdeer, ring-billed gull, mourning dove, common flicker, red-bellied woodpecker, hairy woodpecker, downy woodpecker, eastern phoebe,  blue jay, black-capped chickadee, white-breasted nuthatch,  American robin, ruby-crowned kinglet, house sparrow, red-winged blackbird, brown-headed cowbird, northern cardinal, American goldfinch, chipping sparrow, white-throated sparrow, song sparrow. (26 species)

Pennsylvania Bitter Cress (Cardamine pensylvanica)

Skunk Cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus)

White Trillium (Trillium grandiflorum)

Virginia Waterleaf (Hydrophyllum virginiana)

Bitter Dock (Rumex obtusifolius)

Forget-me-not (Myosotis scorpioides)

Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis)

Trout Lily (Erythronium americanum)