March 10: first Common Grackle sighting in a while. March 13: one of about 14 in a big pine that has been used for the last several years as a nesting site. March 28: today, No Kings protests today around the country in defense of democracy.

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First Osprey sighting of the year: March 22nd. Actually saw another later in the day but had a sandwich in hand and could not photograph. And here’s one in better light on March 24th. They migrate up from Florida and places further south. Individuals satellite-tagged on Nantucket Island and Jamaica Bay here in NYC wintered…

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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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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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From the left: male Wood Duck, female Hooded Merganser, male Red-breasted Merganser, male Hooded Merganser, & Canada Goose.

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Eastern Phoebes have arrived.

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“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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