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Monarch Monday
One of at least five eggs on this patch of young Common Milkweed in Green-Wood. Early instar caterpillar on Common Milkweed at Floyd Bennett Field. A couple of adults on the blazing stars at Arverne East Nature Preserve. And one over the beach.
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Kingbirds!
A family of at least four Eastern Kingbirds, although I could only get three of them in one shot. One of the hungry youngsters… … was being stuffed with unripened mulberries.
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Corn-ithian
The heads of the columns at the Litchfield Villa, once the home of real estate baron E.C. Litchfield, are decorated with corn cobs instead of acanthus leaves. Alexander Jackson Davis, one of the pre-eminent architects of the day, designed this Italianate pile, which was completed in 1857. The rest of the brick building probably looked…
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More Kestrel
On July 19th, with one sibling already fledged, there were still two females in the Chinatown nest. Here’s dad again. He is notably spotless. (Something he didn’t pass on to his male offspring.)
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Raptor Wednesday
More than a month after I saw my first American Kestrel fledglings, there were three nestlings in this Chinatown cornice cavity on July 15th. They were raring to go! On the morning of Juy 19th, one of them, the only male, was out and about. Here he is with dad in the background. The proud…
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Monarch Monday
Feeding on burdock. This one is on a white-flowered cultivar of Swamp Milkweed. And, same butterfly, whatever this is…
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