Nature Done Wright

On the first day of spring, Maureen Ruckdeschel took this shot of a Red-shouldered Hawk perched in the Celery Farm. (Thanks, Maureen!)

I heard a rumor that the Allendale Borough Council might consider making the town's favor raptor "the honorary bird of Allendale.

The hawk is endangered in New Jersey, and it has nested here most years for a quarter-century.