Bird Highlight: Eastern KIngbird

Botany Highlight: Tartarian Honeysuckle

Species list: red-necked grebe, double-crested cormorant, mute swan, Canada goose, mallard, red-tailed hawk, semipalmated sandpiper, ring-billed gull, rock pigeon, belted kingfisher, northern flicker, hairy woodpecker, eastern kingbird, willow flycatcher, eastern wood pewee, tree swallow, barn swallow, black-capped chickadee,  American robin, blue-gray gnatcatcher, cedar waxwing, European starling, red-eyed vireo, warbling vireo, yellow warbler, house sparrow, red-winged blackbird, orchard oriole, Baltimore oriole, common grackle, brown-headed cowbird, northern cardinal, American goldfinch, song sparrow.  (34 species)

Miles Hearn

                                           NATURE POETRY

Month of little hands with daisies,
Lovers’ love, and poets’ praises;
O thou merry month complete,
May, thy very name is sweet!      

 – Leigh Hunt (1784–1859)