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Bird Highlight: Wood Duck
Wood Duck (male)
Wood Duck (female)
Wood Duck (male)
Botany Highlight: Round-leaved Dogwood
Round-leaved Dogwood (Cornus rugosa)
Species list: black-crowned night heron, mute swan, Canada goose, mallard, American black duck, gadwall, northern shoveler, wood duck, lesser scaup, bufflehead, red-tailed hawk, ring-billed gull, northern flicker, red-bellied woodpecker, hairy woodpecker, downy woodpecker, blue jay, black-capped chickadee, white-breasted nuthatch, American robin, golden-crowned kinglet, house sparrow, red-winged blackbird, common grackle, brown-headed cowbird, northern cardinal, house finch, American goldfinch, song sparrow. (29 species)
American Robin
Mallard (male)
American Black Duck
Volunteers leading the Llamas from the High Park Zoo
Hairy Woodpecker (female)
Mute Swans
Red-winged Blackbird (male)
Lesser Scaup
Black-crowned Night Heron
Miles Hearn
NATURE POETRY
There’s a path that leads to Nowhere
In a meadow that I know,
Where an inland island rises
And the stream is still and slow.
– Corinne Roosevelt Robinson (1849–87)