Bird Highlight: Yellow Warbler

Botany Highlight: Choke Cherry

Species list: red-necked grebe, horned grebe, double-crested cormorant, mute swan, Canada goose, mallard,  long-tailed duck, red-breasted merganser, ring-billed gull, common tern, northern flicker, hairy woodpecker, downy woodpecker, tree swallow, barn swallow, gray catbird, American robin, Swainson’s thrush, European starling, warbling vireo, yellow warbler, magnolia warbler, yellow-rumped warbler, chestnut-sided warbler, house sparrow, red-winged blackbird, Baltimore oriole, common grackle, brown-headed cowbird, northern cardinal, American goldfinch, savannah sparrow, chipping sparrow, white-crowned sparrow, song sparrow.  (35 species)

Miles Hearn

                                                 NATURE POETRY

While the bright radient sun in centre glows,
The earth in annual motion round it goes;
At the same time on its own axis reels,
And gives us change of seasons as it wheels.

– The 1793 Old Farmer’s Almanac Vol. 1, No. 1