Bird Highlight: Warbling Vireo

Botany Highlight: Red Ash

Species list: red-necked grebe,  double-crested cormorant, green heron, mute swan,  Canada goose, mallard, long-tailed duck, herring gull, ring-billed gull, common tern, Caspian tern, mourning dove, belted kingfisher, downy woodpecker, tree swallow, barn swallow, blue jay,  black-capped chickadee, gray catbird,  American robin, cedar waxwing, European starling, warbling vireo, yellow warbler, yellow-rumped warbler, house sparrow, red-winged blackbird, Baltimore oriole, common grackle, brown-headed cowbird, northern cardinal, American goldfinch, white-crowned sparrow, white-throated sparrow, song sparrow.  (35 species)

 

Miles Hearn

                                                    NATURE POETRY

Earth endures;
Stars abide—
Shine down in the old sea.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)