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Rouge Hills: April 7, 2018

     

-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)

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                                          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)

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