At Brooklyn Bridge Park amid Mallards, Black Duck, and Gadwalls. A female Green-winged Teal. (I couldn’t see the green speculum until I looked at my photos, so I was wondering what this not- Bufflehead not-Ruddy Duck was….) Fintan O’Toole, who has written a fantastic history of modern Ireland, is one of the our most astute…

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Cooper’s in the ‘hood. A rare sighting (above) while being out and about. More typically lately the bird is on a nearby fire-escape. (So I’m photographing through a dirty window in these shots, the cold being too much to have the window open.) This fire-escape is out of the prevailing wind and facing the morning…

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And then “hatch”-ing the prize open.

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Baked goods edition. With a piece of bread scored on the street, this squirrel raced down the sidewalk, shot up a tree and leaped to the roof deck of this 2.5-story corner house. Then dashed like a Muybridge horse across four parallel roofs, then angled under the one with solar panels on it to the…

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And ice….

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And then, on February 10th, two incidences of carrying twigs to the nest:

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A sudden eruption of Blue Jays made me turn around and circle back towards all the shrieking. Not so much bigger than the Jays enraged by its presence, this hawk was perched in a beech. Since it was so small, I looked closer still. Note the minimal white on the tail tips. Note how these…

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