21 degrees and sunny at the start
Bird Highlight: Eastern Kingbird
Species list: red-necked grebe, double-crested cormorant, least bittern, mute swan, Canada goose, mallard, ring-billed gull, common tern, mourning dove, downy woodpecker, eastern kingbird, willow flycatcher, tree swallow, barn swallow, black-capped chickadee, gray catbird, American robin, blue-gray gnatcatcher, cedar waxwing, European starling, warbling vireo, red-eyed vireo, yellow warbler, house sparrow, red-winged blackbird, Baltimore oriole, common grackle, brown-headed cowbird, northern cardinal, house finch, American goldfinch, song sparrow. (32 species)
Miles Hearn
NATURE POETRY
Where shall we keep the holiday,
And duly greet the entering May?
–
From “May-Day,” Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803 – 1882)