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The flowering trees were at their very best this weekend. I learned this poem many years ago, and according to Houseman, I have used up my allotment of springs! *A. E. Housman <http://www.amherst.edu/%7Erjyanco94/literature/alfrededwardhousman/menu.html> (1859-1936)* Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide. Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again, And take from seventy springs a score, It only leaves me fifty more. And since to look at things in bloom Fifty springs are little room, About the woodlands I will go To see the cherry hung with snow. I made the best of the weekend, and was outside from 6am Sunday at White Point until dark in East Jordan! What joy. *Butterflies: * several Cabbage Whites, several clouded Sulphurs, several small azures ( not sure of them) and I thought one pink-edged Sulphur (it was on some early blueberry blossoms in East Green Harbour). *Plants*: Drosera rotundifolia- the small round leaved Sundew, sparkling with sticky drops; many violets of several species; Cuckoo flowers ( but alas, I didn't see a Cuckoo); Rodora, with profuse fushia blossoms; Clintonia in bloom, and some early ferns - Sensitive, Cinnamon, Interrupted, Bracken and New York Fern. *Mayfly hatch* over the Rockland brook behind Hugh Ronald's place ( next door to Tudor Tiles). *Tree: * there is an ancient looking *Cedar *tree here which I keep planning to measure for the Big Tree site on Nature NS) *Birds*: Lots of avian courtship! Lots of beautiful song! Lots of male birds showing off in splendor. Highlights were: Summerville beach road: *Eastern Kingbird* hawking for insects from a fencepost on the marsh; Broad River Road : Am. Goldfinch pair carrying on an aerial dance; Lockeport: pair of *Common Terns* interacting at western part of Crescent Beach; Sharp-shinned Hawk and Red-tailed Hawk seen en route as well as Herring and Black-backed Gulls, Crows, and Ravens. Rockland: a single *Nighthawk* overhead about 5pm one *Black-throated Blue Warbler* also. Little Harbour : Eastern Kingbird and *White-winged Dove* at David Young's ( seen on my third stop in). *Broad winged Hawk *beside Little Harbour Road and one not far away at the point; two very noisy and frisky *Gray Jays* ( both flew to the road for small bits of wheat bread); six* Barn Swallows* ( one pair mating) at the fish shed at Little Harbour Wharf - two gathering mud from puddles and taking it up to the eaves; *Blue-gray Gnatcatcher* before the end of Benham Road (across from the snow plow turn around place). Blue-headed Vireos, Magnolia Warblers, Yellow Warblers, Common Yellowthroats, Myrtle, Parula, Chesnut sided Warblers, Ovenbirds, Golden crowned Kinglets, Hermit Thrush, Juncos, Song, Swamp, and White-throated Sparrows, and Catbird along this road. Purple Finch, Rose-breasted Grosbeaks, Pine Siskins, American Goldfinch, Blue Jays and Gray Jays, Black capped Chickadees, Robins, Mourning Doves, Grackles and Starlings were seen at door yard feeding stations . LOTS of warblers throughout the day and the county. Cheers, Joan
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