Bird Highlight: American tree sparrow

Botany Highlight: Black Cherry

Species list: Canada goose, mallard, American black duck, turkey vulture, red-tailed hawk, killdeer, herring gull, ring-billed gull, mourning dove, red-bellied woodpecker, hairy woodpecker, downy woodpecker, tree swallow, blue jay, American crow, black-capped chickadee, American robin, European starling, house sparrow, red-winged blackbird, northern cardinal, house finch, American goldfinch, dark-eyed junco, American tree sparrow, song sparrow.  (26 species)

Miles Hearn

                                              NATURE POETRY

Keep warm by inner fires, and rest in peace.
Sleep on content, as sleeps the patient rose.
Walk boldly on the white untrodden snows,
The winter is the winter’s own release.

–Helen Hunt Jackson (1830–85)