11 degrees and overcast at the start
Bird Highlight: White-breasted Nuthatch
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)