Nature’s first green is gold,

Her hardest hue to hold.

Her early leaf’s a flower;

But only so an hour.

Then leaf subsides to leaf.

So Eden sank to grief,

So dawn goes down to day.

Nothing gold can stay.

-Robert Frost

Prothonotary Warbler

Northern Flicker, showing why it is known as “Yellow-shafted Flicker”

Palm Warbler

Bumblebee on redbud blossoms

Savannah Sparrow

Yellow-rumped Warbler

Yellow-rumped Warbler, showing the yellow rump

Yellow Warbler

The golden days of Spring, soon to give way to the deep green of Summer