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Singing Cardinals at Jack Darling Memorial Park: February 2021

We are in the middle of a few weeks of very cold weather. And yet, spring cannot be far away as I heard the cheerful whistles of several cardinals here at Jack Darling Memorial Park in Port Credit.

Northern Cardinal (male)
Northern Cardinals
Northern Cardinal (male)

Jack Darling Memorial is a mixture of lakeshore and forest:

Canada Geese
Mallards

Some botany:

Sycamore (Platanus occidentalis)
Black Alder (Alnus glutinosa)
Red Ash (Fraxinus pensylvanica)
Weeping Willow (Salix babylonica)
Linden (Tilia cordata)
Sassafras (Sassafras albidum)
Norway Spruce (Picea abies)
Red Oak (Quercus rubra)
Norway Maple (Acer platanoides)
Ohio Buckeye (Aesculus glabra)
White Ash (Fraxinus americana)
Staghorn Sumac (Rhus typhina)
Staghorn Sumac (Rhus typhina)
Witch-hazel (Hamamelis virginiana)
Riverbank Grape (Vitis riparia)
Spindletree (Euonymus europaea)
Spindletree (Euonymus europaea)
Swamp White Oak (Quercus bicolor)

NATURE POETRY

The new dawn blooms as we free it
For there is always light,
if only we’re brave enough to see it
If only we’re brave enough to be it.      – Amanda Gorman (b. 1998)

Miles Hearn

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