Bird Highlight: Black-crowned Night Heron

Botany Highlight: Buckhorn

Species list: common loon, red-necked grebe, horned grebe, double-crested cormorant, black-crowned night heron, mute swan, Canada goose, mallard, blue-winged teal, bufflehead, long-tailed duck, red-breasted merganser, ring-billed gull, common tern, mourning dove, northern flicker, hairy woodpecker, downy woodpecker,  white-breasted nuthatch, tree swallow, barn swallow, American crow, American robin, European starling, warbling vireo, yellow-rumped warbler, house sparrow, red-winged blackbird, common grackle, brown-headed cowbird, Baltimore oriole, northern cardinal, house finch, American goldfinch, savannah sparrow, chipping sparrow, field sparrow, song sparrow.  (38 species)

  

Miles Hearn

                                             NATURE POETRY

Gladness is born of the April weather,
And the heart is as light as a wind-tossed feather.
Who could be sad on a day like this?
The care that vexed us no longer is.

–  Eben Eugene Rexford (1848–1916)