After so many winter-like days this month, it was a pleasure to have blue sky and up to 11 degrees today. Add to this, very little wind. By the afternoon I was walking around wearing a light sweater instead of my parka.

Evem the midges were out today:

Species list: mute swan, Canada goose, mallard, American black duck, gadwall, American wigeon, bufflehead, long-tailed duck, greater scaup, white-winged scoter, red-breasted merganser, common merganser, herring gull, ring-billed gull, downy woodpecker, blue jay, black-capped chickadee, house sparrow, northern cardinal, American goldfinch, house finch.  (21 species)

Park scenes:

Some botany:

A few arrived after I took the 10 a.m. group photo, so here are 2 photos:

1 p.m. group:

NATURE POETRY

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.   – Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82)

Miles Hearn