The Perdita are the most diverse of North American bees. They’re also known as “fairy bees” because they can be as small as 2mm long. There are over 600 species, most are in the dry southwest US and northern Mexico. Fewer than 30 species are found east of the Mississippi, however, and barely a handful…

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This guy working on something on a floating dock at Brooklyn Bridge Park was not being appreciated by a local Common Tern. You tell ’em! Long before I was into birds I was set upon by a host of either Common or Forster’s Terns on a beach on Nantucket during breeding season. Tern, duck! Duck,…

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Near the end of our walk in Rockefeller State Park Preserve, an Eastern Milkshake on the edge of the path, which is an old road, scooted into the shrubbery as we came upon it. You can just the animal’s tail end in the center of the photo above. We thought that that would be the…

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Migrants passing throughnin non-breeding plumage. Up to three dozen, a goodly number hereabouts, where fishing, feeding young, grooming, and loafing at Plumb Beach last weekend. A couple of these were banded, but were too far away for me to read/report.

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The shed exoskeleton of an Atlantic Horseshoe Crab. And another, rather larger one. To grow, these arthropods must shed to expand. Yet another, along with a darker corpse. Another dead one. This one is tagged. I reported it to the USFWS, but don’t know if anybody is home there after the destruction wrote by the…

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