Peregrine jumps/falls off ledge. Snags a pigeon. But then loses it. Another day, some feathers were floating out of the nest space. I think some prey was getting plucked. June 7th, peek at a nestling surveying the scene!

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Both parents over Court Street. Justice, the falconeer, atop Brooklyn Borough Hall.

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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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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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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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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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