Wharf Borer taking the ferry to Governor’s Island with us. Asian Oak Weevil Your guess is as good as mine on this tiny one on an oak leaf. Redbud Seed Weevil (I think). Margined Leatherwings. Grape Colaspspis. Click beetle on milkweed, where I’ve seen them before.

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There aren’t any softshell turtles native to the northeast. This is evidently a Pelodiscus genus Chinese softshell. I saw one years ago in Prospect Park Lake. Valley Water is one of Green-Wood’s ponds.

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First rabbits in Green-Wood. The first iNaturalist report of Cottontail Rabbits in the cemetery was at the beginning of June. I had my first sighting, of these two, on July 1. All the difference the direction of the sun makes… Engorged tick: the cemetery hasn’t had any evidence of bad-for-human ticks yet, but this could…

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It’s the birds’ beach now, in breeding season. These photos are from the boardwalk. Flying over the boardwalk, and not quietly. Back inside the fence, from the open beach. And one roaming outside the fence.

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Piping Plover in a forest of Sea Rocket. The bird on was outside the the breeding-beach fencing On the inside of the breeding area, possibly the same one heading towards the water. Good camo.

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More Kestrels! In Manhattan’s Chinatown, I recently joined Peregrine Paparazza Marion to check out the three American Kestrels nests she keeps an eye on. Above is the “Big Head” nest. Male looking in, presumably to check on nestlings June 17. At least two fledglings in this Canal Street nest, 6/17. Division Street: no activity seen…

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