20 degrees and sunny at the start
Bird Highlight: Mallard ducklings
Species list: red-necked grebe, double-crested cormorant, great egret, mute swan, trumpeter swan, Canada goose, mallard, long-tailed duck, ring-billed gull, common tern, Caspian tern, rock pigeon, downy woodpecker, eastern kingbird, willow flycatcher, least flycatcher, tree swallow, barn swallow, blue jay, black-capped chickadee, gray catbird, American robin, European starling, red-eyed vireo, warbling vireo, yellow warbler, mourning warbler, yellow-rumped warbler, house sparrow, red-winged blackbird, Baltimore oriole, common grackle, brown-headed cowbird, northern cardinal, American goldfinch, song sparrow. (36 species)
Miles Hearn
NATURE POETRY
“HE COULD SELL”
It is early morning
It is already hot
I am tired of waiting.
For the bus
At the Islington platform.
Eleven pigeons stalk the platform
They hunt for bread.
Comes one tiny sparrow
Surveys the pigeons from a crack in the pavement
Finds the one piece of bread
On the Islington platform
Flies away with his prize
In front of all the big boys.
Reminds me of that guy in sales
From Minden, I remember
Just a kid
Brash, acne rash, not much dash
But man could he sell.
Beat out all the big boys.
- Adele Koehnke