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Raptor Wednesday
Both parents over Court Street. Justice, the falconeer, atop Brooklyn Borough Hall.
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Mammal Monday
This Groundhog’s den entryway at the base of a Tuliptree is a thicket of Poison Ivy. Don’t pet the marmots.
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Recent Skies
22° halo around Sun and a circumhorizontal arc below it. (The enormous crane, twice as tall as the usual giant cranes, is a recent edition to the near horizon at the wind-power parking lot at South Brooklyn Marine Terminal.)
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Robins’ nest
May 15. May 25 May 28. (What happened to the other two eggs?) There was no parent on the nest any of these moments. One did pop up close by each time I reached the camera up. May 30: an empty nest. What happened?
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Wasps
I’m presenting Beyond the Sting: the Wasps of Green-Wood Cemetery tomorrow. So I thought I’d talk wasps this morning to get in practice. These are mating sawflies. There were a bunch on bracken ferns. Sawflies are the more obscure branch of the Hymenoptera: they’re sometimes called primitive wasps. Note the broad-waists: more typical wasps are…
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Raptor Wednesday
Plucking of prey. Fly to nest. Leaving meat for mate. Who then flew to their favorite statue of Justice. This one then flew off as … This one took the balance.
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Monarch Monday
The Common Milkweed plant I found my first Monarch butterfly egg of the season on (May 16th) was down when I walked by on May 26th. There was a tiny caterpillar on it! I moved it to a living Common Milkweed nearby, and it promptly voided. Here’s another tiny caterpillar neaerby. A messy eater! And…
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