Hey, have you seen any new wildflowers or birds in the park lately? I’m putting together a tiny spreadsheet of local species and their soil pH needs, and I could use your gentle eye for harmony. Let’s see if we can catalogue something together, like the common pigeon, Passer domesticus, and maybe a poppy, Papaver spp.

Great! Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) likes a neutral to slightly alkaline soil, about pH 6.0 to 8.0. The cardinal isn’t a plant, so it doesn’t care about soil pH—just the habitat, shade, and food. I’ll log the cardinal under “Avian visitors” and keep the dandelion under “Herbaceous” in the sheet. Anything else you spotted?