Bird Highlight: Red-necked Grebe

Botany Highlight: Northern Catalpa

Species list: common loon, red-necked grebe, horned grebe, double-crested cormorant, black-crowned night heron, mute swan, Canada goose, mallard, American black duck, American wigeon, redhead, lesser scaup, bufflehead, long-tailed duck, red-breasted merganser, herring gull, ring-billed gull, downy woodpecker,  tree swallow, blue jay, American robin, European starling, house sparrow, red-winged blackbird, common grackle, brown-headed cowbird, northern cardinal, American goldfinch, dark-eyed junco, song sparrow.  (30 species)

Miles Hearn

                                       NATURE POETRY

It is the first mild day of March:
Each minute sweeter than before
The redbreast sings from the tall larch
That stands beside our door.     

 –William Wordsworth (1770–1850)