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Special Downtown Raptor Edition
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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Raptor Wednesday
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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On the Icefront
From the left: male Wood Duck, female Hooded Merganser, male Red-breasted Merganser, male Hooded Merganser, & Canada Goose.
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Spring
“The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going around the sun, and neither the dictators nor the bureaucrats, deeply as they disapprove of the process, are able to prevent it.” George Orwell, “Some Thoughts…
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And Another Gull
Another big, white-winged gull on Pier 4 at Brooklyn Army Terminal. (This pier is used as a parking lot, so get there early before all the parking spaces are filled up and the gulls head out for their day’s business.) Glaucous Gull/Larus hyperboreus. A visitor from the far north. The Iceland Gull was also there.
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