In Green-Wood

Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery is a remarkable place year ’round, but this is the richest season for its natural history.
The blush of a crab apple.
An Alien-like cicada exuvia.
Green frog in the Valley Water.
Feral honey bee hive.
Cautious frog. I’m not sure of the species. The Valley Water has green frogs (big), bull frogs (bigger) and these guys (little), which may be young green frogs.
Double-crested cormorant (the crest is a mating plumage fillip) drying out. Unlike ducks, cormorants don’t have oiled feathers, so the water does not run off their backs. They use the weight of the water in their feathers to help them dive deeper after their fish prey, but need to get back to equilibrium so will often be seen posed this way.
This blue dasher posed, briefly, but the green darners, Eastern amberwings, black saddlebags, common white tails, and twelve spotted skimmers got away from me.