16 degrees and sunny at the start
Bird Highlight: Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Species list: turkey vulture, pileated woodpecker, great crested flycatcher, ring-billed gull, pileated woodpecker, tree swallow, blue jay, common raven, American crow, black-capped chickadee, white-breasted nuthatch, gray catbird, American robin, nashville warbler, yellow warbler, black-throated green warbler, chestnut-sided warbler, red-winged blackbird, Baltimore oriole, northern cardinal, American goldfinch, field sparrow, white-crowned sparrow, swamp sparrow, song sparrow. (25 species)
Miles Hearn
NATURE POETRY
Come down the mountains, April! with young eyes,
And roguish daisy-children trooping after,
Draw from the sullen clay red peonies,
Bring back the sun as a stripling full of laughter!
– Mary Webb (1881–1927)