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Beechwood \ Don Valley: Tuesday, May 31, 2016

24 degrees and sunny at the start.

Beechwood \ Don Valley

 Bird Highlight: Black-billed Cuckoo

Black-billed Cuckoo (Wikimedia)

 Botany Highlight: Dame’s Rocket

Dame’s Rocket (Hesperis matronalis)

Species list: Canada goose, mallard, red-tailed hawk, killdeer, spotted sandpiper, ring-billed gull, mourning dove, black-billed cuckoo, belted kingfisher, eastern kingbird, tree swallow, bank swallow, blue jay, gray catbird, American robin, red-eyed vireo,  warbling vireo, yellow warbler, red-winged blackbird, orchard oriole, baltimore oriole, common grackle, brown-headed cowbird, northern cardinal, rose-breasted grosbeak,  American goldfinch, song sparrow. (27 species)

Robin’s nest

Virginia Waterleaf (Hydrophyllum virginianum)

Orache (Atriplex patula)

Trumpet Vine (Campsis radicans)

False Solomon’s Seal (Maianthemum racemosum)

Round-leaved Dogwood (Cornus rugosa)

Red Baneberry (Actaea rubra)

Red Admiral Butterfly

Spittlebug

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