Plano Outdoor Learning Center / Bob Woodruff Park

Mar 1/8, 2009

Eastern Meadowlark. I think most meadowlarks I saw in the park this winter were Easterns, but on March 8 one bird (not this one) was singing an unmistakeable Western Meadowlark song.

 Eastern Meadowlark
A Pine Siskin visiting the feeder at the Outdoor Learning Center. Pine Siskin

Directly overhead a Cooper's Hawk was keeping watch.

Cooper's Hawk

Lots of spring flowers emerging. Crow-Poison (Nothoscordum bivalve)

Crow-Poison
Gray Hairstreak (Strymon melinus franki) Gray Hairstreak (Strymon melinus franki)
Mexican Plum (Prunus mexicana) Mexican Plum
Goatweed Leafwing (Anaea andria) Goatweed Leafwing (Anaea andria)
Windflower (Anemone berlandieri) Windflower (Anemone berlandieri)
Persian Speedwell (Veronica persica) Persian Speedwell (Veronica persica)
Eastern Redbud (Cercis canadensis) Eastern Redbud (Cercis canadensis)

Missouri Violet (Viola missouriensis)

 Missouri Violet (Viola missouriensis)