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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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Rose Curlculio/Merhynchites bicolor on… rose. Relict Rhinoceros/Ligyrus relictus, dead on the sand. Sand Chafer/Strigoderma arbicola in Opuntia cactus flower. Also on Opuntia, a shining flower beetle of some kind. Red Milkweed Beetle/Tetraopes tetrophthalmus on Common Milkweed. Some kind of soft-winged flower beetle on New Jersey Tea. AsianOak Lef Beetle/Demontina modesta on oak. Maybe a mite-eating…

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Marine Park, the more distant nest from the Nature Center. Marine Park, the closer nest. Both these nests seen on the same day, 6/15. Grand Army Plaza, way up on the 14th floor, same day.

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