Beech nuts and the pods they come in on. 
At another beech tree, this time a stump, some funky fungus.
I like the way one of these “organ pipe” mud-dauber-wasp nests follows the arch here. 
It will be some months before we see the trees this leafy again.
Seen on recent saunters
5 responses to “Seen on recent saunters”
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nice pics, as usual!
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Thanks Matthew for including the flicker in this flock of photos. On Friday I went for a run in Prospect Park, and as I crossed the Nethermead, I must have flushed up over 100 flickers. They were in little groups of 3 or 4 in the grass, then would fly up into a big red oak on the southeast side of the meadow. Each group that reached the tree sent another group out of the tree in some other direction. It was quite the ballet!
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It’s been Northern Flickerstan out there.
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Hey Matthew! What kind of bird is pictured in this post? A friend is trying to I’D a bird that visited his balcony and it might be this one. Thanks, Karen
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This is a Northern Flicker. They pass through in large numbers this time of year. In the West, their colored feathers in wings and tail are red; here on the east coast they are “yellow-shafted.” It’s the only woodpecker you will regularly see foraging on the ground.
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