Starting out from Brooklyn, an amateur naturalist explores our world.
As John Burroughs said, “The place to observe nature is where you are.”
The wing-gap Red-tail has a blue band that seems to read 10 over A. (I’ve submitted details to the Bird Banding Lab…)
With sticks for the nest. Which could use a renovation.
The mate, I presume the female, in the nest. She was trying to break off some twigs in a nearby tree as well.
[…] mate, presumably the male. Distinctively wing-gapped. This one is banded with both a federal band (silver–not much good to the observer unless the bird is in hand) […]
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