Bird Highlight: Baltimore Oriole

Botany Highlight: Wild Geranium

Species list: mute swan, Canada goose, mallard, American black duck, ring-billed gull, common tern, northern flicker, eastern kingbird, willow flycatcher, least flycatcher, eastern pewee, tree swallow, barn swallow, cliff swallow, American crow, black-capped chickadee, white-breasted nuthatch, gray catbird, American robin, European starling, warbling vireo, red-eyed vireo, tennessee warbler, yellow warbler, chestnut-sided warbler, blackpoll warbler, American redstart, house sparrow, red-winged blackbird, Baltimore oriole, common grackle, brown-headed cowbird, northern cardinal, American goldfinch, song sparrow.  (35 species)

Miles Hearn

NATURE POETRY

This Poem is For the Birds

I am zapped by life from time to time

That is when I write a rhyme.

Driving along,

I recently saw

About fifty small birds flying west

And one lone Canada goose flying east.

And then the fifty whatever type birds

Did a gala U-turn in the sky

And followed the one lone Canada goose.

Whoever can know why?

Maybe they thought he was the guy in the know.

• Adele Koehnke