Bird Highlight: Yellow Warbler

Botany Highlight: Riverbank Grape

Species list: mallard, red-tailed hawk, turkey vulture, ring-billed gull, downy woodpecker, tree swallow, blue jay, American crow, black-capped chickadee, gray catbird, American robin, blue-gray gnatcatcher, red-eyed vireo, warbling vireo, yellow warbler, yellow-rumped warbler, American redstart,  red-winged blackbird, Baltimore oriole, northern cardinal, rose-breasted grosbeak, American goldfinch, white-crowned sparrow, song sparrow.  (24 species)

Miles Hearn

                                           NATURE POETRY

Summer, fall, winter, spring,
The seasons rotate as each brings
Its special beauty to this Earth of ours.
Winter’s snow and summer’s flowers;
Frozen rivers will flow come spring,
There is a renewal of everything.

– Edna Frohock (1906–97)