As days grow longer and temperatures warm, there is lots of activity in both botany and the bird world in the Don Valley.
I even encountered my first snake of the season:
Some botany:
The largest flowers were the European Pussy Willows:
About every one hundred metres there is a Song Sparrow:
Other birds:
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Man does excellent bird imitations:
NATURE POETRY
Again rejoicing Nature sees
Her robe assume its vernal hues,
Her leafy locks wave in the breeze,
All freshly steep’d in morning dews. – Robert Burns (1759–96)
Miles Hearn