Bird Highlight: Northern Cardinal

Botany Highlight: Eastern Hemlock

Species list: Canada goose, mallard, ring-billed gull, mourning dove, red-bellied woodpecker, hairy woodpecker, downy woodpecker, blue jay, black-capped chickadee, white-breasted nuthatch, red-breasted nuthatch,  American robin, European starling, red-winged blackbird, brown-headed cowbird, northern cardinal, dark-eyed junco, song sparrow.  (18 species)

Miles Hearn

                                         NATURE POETRY

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap,
but by the seeds that you plant.

– Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–94)