Springtime In the Wetlands

Springtime comes with whooping cranes
It comes with dancing ruffs
It comes with singing starlings
It comes with drumming bitterns
It comes with chattering storks
And with scented ramson bloom

Springtime comes with strutting godwits
It comes with swimming otters
It comes with jumping rabbits
It comes with soaring kites
It comes with fishing herons
And with star petal anemones

When the ice has melted
When all the snow is gone
When all the trees fill up with green
And nature fills with young
Then my wetlands shine again

With springtime blossoms love
With springtime blossoms life
And it makes me smile