Bird Highlight: Wood Duck

Botany Highlight: Wood Anemone

Species list: Canada goose, mallard, wood duck, turkey vulture, red-tailed hawk, spotted sandpiper, ring-billed gull, northern flicker, red-bellied woodpecker, hairy woodpecker, downy woodpecker, tree swallow, barn swallow, blue jay, black-capped chickadee, white-breasted nuthatch, northern mockingbird, gray catbird, American robin, European starling, warbling vireo, yellow warbler,  house sparrow, red-winged blackbird, Baltimore Oriole, northern cardinal, house finch, American goldfinch,  song sparrow.  (29 species)

Miles Hearn

NATURE POETRY

The thirsty earth soaks up the rain,
And drinks and gapes for drink again;
The plants suck in the earth, and are
With constant drinking fresh and fair.

– Abraham Cowley (1618–1667)