Sightings of our Feathered Friends
Have you noticed that the volume has been turned up on the morning chorus of bird song? Our local breeding birds are getting serious in their efforts to establish and defend territories for nesting and for raising young. More and more of our visiting migrant birds are arriving to add their voices to the choir.
In another sure sign of spring, many of these birds are molting into their bright breeding plumage. Just yesterday evening, Arboretum gardener Nicole Lewis and her young daughter, Maysie, observed six very yellow American Goldfinches cavorting high among the flowers of the massive Bur Oak, Quercus…
