Bird Highlight: Green-winged Teal

Botany Highlight: Spring Beauty

Species list: double-crested cormorant, Canada goose, mallard, green-winged teal, killdeer, spotted sandpiper, herring gull, ring-billed gull, Caspian tern, mourning dove, belted kingfisher, northern flicker, red-bellied woodpecker, hairy woodpecker, downy woodpecker, tree swallow, rough-winged swallow, barn swallow, blue jay, black-capped chickadee, white-breasted nuthatch, gray catbird, American robin, ruby-crowned kinglet,  European starling, yellow warbler,  house sparrow, red-winged blackbird, Baltimore Oriole, brown-headed cowbird, northern cardinal, house finch, American goldfinch,  song sparrow.  (34 species)

Miles Hearn

NATURE POETRY

April the Beautiful, with streaming eyes,
Weeps o’er the havoc that rude March has made.
The dales are musical with her sweet sighs,
Tears mark her footsteps o’er the moistened glade.

– John Askham (1825–94)