24 degrees and sunny at the start
Bird Highlight: American Goldfinch
Species list: turkey vulture, Cooper’s Hawk, mourning dove, downy woodpecker, barn swallow, Carolina wren, American robin, cedar waxwing, red-eyed vireo, house sparrow, common grackle, northern cardinal, American goldfinch, indigo bunting, song sparrow. (15 species)
Thanks to Eugene Knapik who sent me 12 photos because I was having some camera difficulties.
Miles Hearn
PHOTOS by EUGENE KNAPIK
NATURE POETRY
The earliest breath of June
Blows the white tassels from the cherry boughs,
And in the deepest shadow of noon
The mild-eyed oxen browse.
– Elizabeth Akers Allen (1832–1911)