Backyard and Beyond

Starting out from Brooklyn, an amateur naturalist explores our world.

As John Burroughs said, “The place to observe nature is where you are.”

Raptor Wednesday

This pile of sticks is not, in fact, a hawk nest. It’s the Monk Parakeet colony on Green-Wood’s Neo-Gothic gate, but one young Red-tail seems pretty convinced that parakeet is on the menu.
And where there is one Red-tail these days of pair-bonding and mating, there may often be others. There’s actually a third hawk perched behind the top of this tower as well. One more was in the air behind me.
The Monks seemed ill-pleased.

mthew

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