Botany Highlight: Manitoba maple

Manitoba Maple (Acer negundo)

Species list: double-crested cormorant, Canada goose, mallard, turkey vulture, red-tailed hawk, killdeer, ring-billed gull, common flicker, red-bellied woodpecker, hairy woodpecker, downy woodpecker,  blue jay, common raven, black-capped chickadee, white-breasted nuthatch,  American robin, ruby-crowned kinglet, house sparrow,  red-winged blackbird, brown-headed cowbird, northern cardinal, American goldfinch, white-throated sparrow, song sparrow. (24 species)

Lesser Celandine (Ficaria verna)

Maple-leaved Viburnum (Viburnum acerifolium)

Skunk Cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus)

Marsh Marigold (Caltha palustris)

Blue Cohosh (Caulophyllum thalictroides)

Basswood (Tilia americana)

Wild Ginger (Asarum canadense)

Trout Lily (Erythronium americanum)