There were lots of birds. Warblers were flitting about. I only positively identified yellow-rumped and palm; if I knew warblers better (especially if I knew their songs) I'm sure I'd have many more. Wood thrush, Baltimore oriole, scarlet tanager, tree swallow, kingbird, and a catbird in practically every tree were some others that gave me joy. Based on what I'm seeing, I think the geese are having a bad year. The few groups of goslings I'm seeing are growing rapidly larger, but there seem to be a lot of adult geese in groups rather than pairs and not very many families. When I started seeing a few broods of goslings a couple of weeks ago I thought I was just seeing the early ones, but since thinking that I have not been seeing more groups of little newly-hatched ones -- just the same relatively few groups.
Also a good day for wildflowers. There's still a fair number of spring beauties, but phlox was the dominant wildflower of the day. Also many mayapples, and a patch of wild geranium which I didn't expect to see yet.
