Bird Highlight: Spotted Sandpiper

Botany Highlight: Sand Cherry

Species list: red-necked grebe, double-crested cormorant, black-crowned night heron, mute swan, mallard, spotted sandpiper, semi-palmated sandpiper, herring gull, ring-billed gull, mourning dove, chimney swift, tree swallow, bank swallow, rough-winged swallow, barn swallow, cliff swallow, gray catbird, American robin, blue-gray gnatcatcher, cedar waxwing, European starling, warbling 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

My lilac trees are old and tall;
I cannot reach their bloom at all.
They send their perfume over trees
And roofs and streets, to find the bees.

– Louise Driscoll (1875–1957)