-3 degrees and sunny at the start
Bird Highlight: Osprey
Osprey (photo: Ken Sproule)
Osprey (photo: Ken Sproule)
Botany Highlight: Bitternut Hickory
Bitternut Hickory nuts (Carya cordiformis)
Species list: osprey, ring-billed gull, pileated woodpecker, hairy woodpecker, downy woodpecker, American crow, black-capped chickadee, white-breasted nuthatch, American robin, red-winged blackbird, brown-headed cowbird, northern cardinal, American goldfinch, dark-eyed junco, song sparrow. (15 species)
Black-capped Chickadee
Song Sparrow
American Robin
Norway Spruce cones (Picea abies)
American Goldfinch (male)
Miles Hearn
NATURE POETRY
The snow has left the cottage top;
The thatch-moss grows in brighter green;
And eaves in quick succession drop,
Where grinning icicles have been.
– John Clare (1793–1864)
great pictures, miles! love the poetry too. marilyn and i want to know where you are getting these lovely little poems. also, we want to know where the birds are? you seem to be finding many fewer in the last six months and we are noticing the same at our feeders and even in florida for the last two weeks! is there something happening that naturalists can help us understand? 🙂 -rain
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