Bird Highlight: Great Crested Flycatcher

Botany Highlight: Marsh Marigold

Species list: trumpeter swan, Canada goose, turkey vulture, red-tailed hawk, ring-billed gull, mourning dove, hairy woodpecker, great crested flycatcher, tree swallow, bank swallow, blue jay, black-capped chickadee, white-breasted nuthatch, house wren, Carolina wren, gray catbird, American robin, European starling, warbling vireo, red-eyed vireo, tennessee warbler, nashville warbler, northern parula warbler, yellow warbler, magnolia warbler, chestnut-sided warbler, common yellowthroat, American redstart, house sparrow, bobolink, red-winged blackbird, Baltimore oriole, common grackle, brown-headed cowbird, northern cardinal, American goldfinch, song sparrow.  (37 species)

Miles Hearn

NATURE POETRY

             Monterez Inn Resort – Ottawa area

Seeing a river through my window

in the morning

meant so much.

Corrugated ripples,

strong and peaceful.

Sure autumn colours

fringing the river.

I never get to rise in the mornings to a river.

In Toronto.

It was nice.

It was nice.

God’s morning handshake.

• Adele Koehnke