Bird Highlight: Red-winged Blackbird

Botany Highlight: Cottonwood

Species list: red-necked grebe,  double-crested cormorant, mute swan, trumpeter swan, Canada goose, mallard, lesser scaup, bufflehead,  long-tailed duck, ring-billed gull, common tern, rock pigeon, belted kingfisher, hairy woodpecker, eastern kingbird,  tree swallow, barn swallow, black-capped chickadee, gray catbird,  American robin, hermit thrush, ruby-crowned kinglet, European starling, warbling vireo, yellow warbler, yellow-rumped warbler, chestnut-sided warbler, house sparrow, red-winged blackbird, common grackle, brown-headed cowbird, Baltimore oriole, northern cardinal, American goldfinch, chipping sparrow, white-throated sparrow, song sparrow.  (37 species)

Miles Hearn

                                              NATURE POETRY

Again the blackbirds sing; the streams
Wake, laughing, from their winter dreams,
And tremble in the April showers
The tassels of the maple flowers.

– John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–92)