Bird Highlight: escaped Budgerigar

Budgerigars also called Parakeets or Budgies are caged birds which originate in Australia. This one has escaped and, as they eat seeds, will not enjoy the worm that it is inspecting.

Botany Highlight: Iris seed pod

Species list: Canada goose, mallard, killdeer, spotted sandpiper, ring-billed gull, northern flicker, great crested flycatcher, blue jay, black-capped chickadee, white-breasted nuthatch, gray catbird, American robin, cedar waxwing, warbling vireo, house sparrow, red-winged blackbird, Baltimore Oriole, common grackle, northern cardinal, indigo bunting, American goldfinch,  song sparrow.  (22 species)

Miles Hearn

                                        NATURE POETRY

Fair and green is the marsh in June;
Wide and warm in the sunny noon.
The flowering rushes fringe the pool
With slender shadows, dim and cool.

– Antoinette Alcott Bassett (b. 1857)