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Bird Highlight: Long-tailed Duck
Long-tailed Duck (male)
Botany Highlight: Sea-buckthorn
Sea-buckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoides)
Species list: mute swan, trumpeter swan, mallard, gadwall, lesser scaup, common goldeneye, bufflehead, long-tailed duck, red-breasted merganser, ring-billed gull, downy woodpecker, black-capped chickadee, American robin, golden-crowned kinglet, red-winged blackbird, northern cardinal, American goldfinch, dark-eyed junco, American tree sparrow, song sparrow. (20 species)
Canada Geese
Red-osier Dogwood (Cornus sericea)
Common Goldeneyes
Northern Cardinal (female)
Kentucky Coffee Tree
Lesser Scaup
Siberian Elm (Ulmus pumila)
Gadwall (male)
Miles Hearn
SPRING POETRY
The merry cuckoo, messenger of spring, His trumpet shrill hath thrice already sounded: That warns all lovers wait upon their king, Who now is coming forth with garlands crowned. With noise thereof the quire of birds resounded Their anthems sweet devised of love's praise, That all the woods their echoes back rebounded, As if they knew the meaning of their lays. But 'mongst them all, which did Love's honour raise, No word was heard of her that most it ought, But she his precept proudly disobeys, And doth this idle message set at nought. Therefore O love, unless she turn to thee Ere Cuckoo end, let her a rebel be. Edmund Spenser 1552 - 1599