25 degrees and sunny at the start
Barn Swallow
Barn Swallow parent and chick
Barn Swallow family
Botany Highlight: Wild Parsnip
Wild Parsnip (Pastinaca sativa)
Wild Parsnip (Pastinaca sativa)
Canada Goose
Japanese Beetles
Weeping Willow with crown galls
moulting Mallard (male)
Stickseed (Hackelia deflexa)
Chipmunk
Poison Ivy (Tocicodendron rydbergii)
American Robin
Twelve-spot Skimmer
Common Burdock (Arctium minus)
Canada Thistle (Cirsium arvense)
Red-winged Blackbird (female)
Field Sow-thistle (Sonchus arvensis)
House Sparrow (female)
Inky Cap Mushrooms
Starry false solomon-seal (Maianthemum stellatum)
Orange Jewelweed (Impatiens capensis)
Black Currant (Ribes Americanum)
Forget-me-not (Myosotis)
ganoderma (varnish shelf mushroom)
Miles Hearn
NATURE POETRY
In June ’tis good to lie beneath a tree
While the blithe season comforts every sense,
Steeps all the brain in rest, and heals the heart,
Brimming it o’er with sweetness unawares.
– J. R. Lowell (1819–91)