3 degrees and raining throughout
Bird Highlight: Common Grackle
Common Grackle with Cowbirds
Botany Highlight: Black Walnut
Black Walnut (Juglans nigra)
Walnut remains
Species list: Canada goose, ring-billed gull, mourning dove, red-bellied woodpecker, hairy woodpecker, downy woodpecker, blue jay, American crow, black-capped chickadee, carolina wren, American robin, European starling, red-winged blackbird, common grackle, brown-headed cowbird, northern cardinal, house finch, American goldfinch, song sparrow. (19 species)
Hemlock (Tsuga canadensis)
Grackle, Cowbird, Red-winged Blackbird
Elderberry (Sambucus)
Snowdrop (Galanthus nivalis)
Miles Hearn
NATURE POETRY
And time remembered is grief forgotten,
And frosts are slain and flowers begotten,
And in green underwood and cover
Blossom by blossom the spring begins.
– Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909)