29 degrees and sunny at the start
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher parent and chick
Botany Highlight: Showy Tick-trefoil
Showy Tick-trefoil (Desmodium canadense)
Black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta)
Black-crowned Night Heron
Curled Dock (Rumex crispus)
Great Blue Heron
Thimbleweed ((Anemone cylindrica)
Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca)
Spreading Dogbane (Apocynum androsaemifolium)
Black Raspberry (Rubus occidentalis)
Poison Ivy (Toxicodendron rydbergii!
Butter-and eggs (Linaria vulgaris)
Woodland Sunflower (Helianthus divaricatus)
Wood Duck (immature)
Timothy (Phleum pratense)
Canada Blue-joint (Calamagrostis canadensis)
Wood Duck (female) and chicks
Swamp-candles (Lysimachia hybrida)
Mallards (immatures)
Morrow Honeysuckle (Lonicera morrowii)
Sweet-flag (Acorus americanus)
Threesquare (Schoenoplectus pungens)
Butterfly-weed (Asclepias tuberosa)
House Finch (immature)
Common St. John’s -wort (Hypericum perforatum)
Miles Hearn
NATURE POETRY
Sing me a song of idle days,
When rosy and white are the new-blown mays,
And rose and white on the wanton breeze
The petals fall from the apple trees.
– Francis W. Bourdillo (1852–1921)