Holiday Hours: The Folger is closing at 4:30pm on Dec 24 and Dec 31. We are closed all day on Dec 25 and Jan 1.
Common cuckoo
Fauna: 2 Adult cuckoos (male and female), 1 cuckoo chick in a reed warbler nest, 1 dunnock, 1 redstart, 1 reed warbler
Flora: Almond tree, buttercup, cherry tree, cuckoo flower, daffodil, iris, reeds
Objects: The cuckoo’s call written in music notes, 3 cuckoo eggs, 7 cuckoo feathers, tree stump
Plants mentioned by Shakespeare: Almond (Prunus amygdalus), cuckoo flower (buttercup) (Ranunculus acris), daffodil (Narcissus hispanicus and Narcissus tazetta), iris (Iris germanica), reed (Phragmites australis)