I keep seeing ’em in a triad. Another day: they’ve just taken a branch from the Monk Parakeet nest. The parakeets were enraged! They flew it to the nest.

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March 10: first Common Grackle sighting in a while. March 13: one of about 14 in a big pine that has been used for the last several years as a nesting site. March 28: today, No Kings protests today around the country in defense of democracy.

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First Osprey sighting of the year: March 22nd. Actually saw another later in the day but had a sandwich in hand and could not photograph. And here’s one in better light on March 24th. They migrate up from Florida and places further south. Individuals satellite-tagged on Nantucket Island and Jamaica Bay here in NYC wintered…

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Female Kestrel on teh Chinatown/Lower East Side border. Coopers around the same place. Two Red-tailed Hawks over Columbus Park. Maybe one of those same birds around the courts and Municipal Bldg. And then across the Brooklyn Bridge to downtown Brooklyn, where a Coopers perched on the old St George Hotel.

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First sign of mating season this year, March 13. March 14: this may be the last time I see a resident Merlin until the fall. The Blue Jays aren’t as sad as I am. Red-tailed Hawk on the Monk Parakeet nest.

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From the left: male Wood Duck, female Hooded Merganser, male Red-breasted Merganser, male Hooded Merganser, & Canada Goose.

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Eastern Phoebes have arrived.

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