Bird Highlight: Northern Rough-winged Swallow

Botany Highlight: Downy Chess

Species list: green heron, black-crowned night heron, Canada goose, mallard, ring-billed gull, black-billed cuckoo,  northern flicker, hairy woodpecker, eastern kingbird, great-crested flycatcher, willow flycatcher, least flycatcher, eastern pewee, tree swallow, barn swallow, rough-winged swallow, blue jay, white-breasted nuthatch,  black-capped chickadee, white-breasted nuthatch, northern mockingbird, gray catbird, European starling, American robin, blue-gray gnatcatcher, European starling, warbling vireo, red-eyed vireo, yellow warbler, American redstart, house sparrow, red-winged blackbird, Baltimore oriole, common grackle, brown-headed cowbird, northern cardinal, indigo bunting,  American goldfinch, savannah sparrow,  song sparrow.  (40 species)

Miles Hearn

NATURE POETRY

And Phillida, with garlands gay,
Was made the Lady of the May.

– Nicholas Breton (1545–1626)