Bird Highlight: White-breasted Nuthatch

Botany Highlight: Virginia Waterleaf

Species list: great blue heron, Canada goose, mallard, American black duck, red-tailed hawk, killdeer, herring gull, ring-billed gull, mourning dove, northern flicker, hairy woodpecker, downy woodpecker, blue jay, black-capped chickadee, white-breasted nuthatch, American robin, golden-crowned kinglet, house sparrow, red-winged blackbird, brown-headed cowbird, northern cardinal, house finch, American goldfinch, chipping sparrow, song sparrow.  (25 species)

 

Miles Hearn

                                                   NATURE POETRY

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough,
And stands about the woodland ride
Wearing white for Eastertide.

– A. E. Housman (1859–1936)