Article: JUNE'S PROMISE

June is the promise fulfilled, the period of the great stillness, leading to the great solstice holiday, when our Sun hangs suspended in the sky for ten luminous days, interrupted by the year's briefest nights, and even those redeemed by the brilliant summer constellations.

June 1 -- June is peak time for breeding birds. Most are breeding now, or even starting second broods. The robins, and cardinals, the kingbirds, the hummingbirds, crows and grackles, the song sparrows and the golden-winged warblers, the brown creepers and the ovenbirds.

June 2 -- The delicate water strider runs on the surface of the still ponds dimpling the water with its long delicate legs supported by the ...

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