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Robins’ nest
May 15. May 25 May 28. (What happened to the other two eggs?) There was no parent on the nest any of these moments. One did pop up close by each time I reached the camera up. May 30: an empty nest. What happened?
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Wasps
I’m presenting Beyond the Sting: the Wasps of Green-Wood Cemetery tomorrow. So I thought I’d talk wasps this morning to get in practice. These are mating sawflies. There were a bunch on bracken ferns. Sawflies are the more obscure branch of the Hymenoptera: they’re sometimes called primitive wasps. Note the broad-waists: more typical wasps are…
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Raptor Wednesday
Plucking of prey. Fly to nest. Leaving meat for mate. Who then flew to their favorite statue of Justice. This one then flew off as … This one took the balance.
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Monarch Monday
The Common Milkweed plant I found my first Monarch butterfly egg of the season on (May 16th) was down when I walked by on May 26th. There was a tiny caterpillar on it! I moved it to a living Common Milkweed nearby, and it promptly voided. Here’s another tiny caterpillar neaerby. A messy eater! And…
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A Study in Scarlets
There’s nothing like the redand the black combo of a Scarlet Tanager male amid the soft greens of spring leaves. Or how about two, with a female in the mix as well?
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Three Baltimore Oriole Nests
This is the one I watched being built. I guess this is the builder, because she’s practically right below the nest. This is in the Dell Water, the thickest patch of woods in Green-Wood. I don’t think there are any human-made materials in the nest above. Whereas this one, pointed out to me by The…
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