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Bird Highlight: Red-bellied Woodpecker
Species list: Canada goose, mallard, red-tailed hawk, ring-billed gull, mourning dove, red-bellied woodpecker, hairy woodpecker, downy woodpecker, blue jay, American crow, black-capped chickadee, white-breasted nuthatch, American robin, golden-crowned kinglet, red-winged blackbird, commonrackle, brown-headed cowbird, northern cardinal, American goldfinch, dark-eyed junco, song sparrow. (22 species)
Miles Hearn
NATURE POETRY
Black boughs against a pale, clear sky,
Slight mists of cloud-wreaths floating by;
Soft sunlight, gray-blue smoky air,
Wet thawing snows on hillsides bare.
– Emma Lazarus (1849–87)