We just returned from a 5-mile walk here at the Prairie Garden Trust. With the perfect Spring weather there are many wildflowers and birds to see.

We counted 48 different types of birds this morning including our first Green Heron of the year.

Here is a list of what we saw today:
Canada Goose
Wood Duck
Blue-winged Teal
Northern Bobwhite
Great Blue Heron
Green Heron
Turkey Vulture
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
American Coot (Red-shielded)
Killdeer
Mourning Dove
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
American Kestrel
Eastern Phoebe
Blue Jay
American Crow
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Black-capped Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
White-breasted Nuthatch
Carolina Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Eastern Bluebird
American Robin
Brown Thrasher
European Starling
Louisiana Waterthrush
Black-and-white Warbler
Northern Parula
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)
Chipping Sparrow
Field Sparrow
Fox Sparrow
Fox Sparrow (Red)
Dark-eyed Junco
Eastern Towhee
Northern Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbird
Eastern Meadowlark
Brown-headed Cowbird
American Goldfinch