Bird Highlight: Mourning Dove

Botany Highlight: Bur Oak

Species list: red-tailed hawk, Cooper’s hawk, mourning dove, red-bellied woodpecker, hairy woodpecker, downy woodpecker, blue jay, black-capped chickadee, white-breasted nuthatch, American robin,  northern cardinal, dark-eyed junco.  (12 species)

Miles Hearn

                                          WINTER POETRY

The sprawling Bear
Growled deep in the sky;
And Orion’s hair
Streamed sparkling by:
But the North sighed low,
“Snow, snow, more snow!”

–Walter de la Mare (1873–1956)