Bird Highlight: Bobolink

Botany Highlight: Poison Ivy

Species list: double-crested cormorant, mallard, turkey vulture, ring-billed gull, mourning dove, rock pigeon, downy woodpecker, bank swallow, blue jay, American crow, black-capped chickadee, white-breasted nuthatch, house wren, Carolina wren, gray catbird, brown thrasher, American robin, European starling, warbling vireo, yellow warbler, yellow-rumped warbler, house sparrow, bobolink, red-winged blackbird, common grackle, brown-headed cowbird, northern cardinal, house finch, American goldfinch,white-throated sparrow,  song sparrow.  (29 species)

Miles Hearn

NATURE POETRY

And all the woods are alive with the murmur and sound of Spring,
And the rose-bud breaks into pink on the climbing briar,
And the crocus-bed is a quivering moon of fire
Girdled round with the belt of an amethyst ring.

– Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)