Our Tiniest Duck

At Brooklyn Bridge Park amid Mallards, Black Duck, and Gadwalls.

A female Green-winged Teal. (I couldn’t see the green speculum until I looked at my photos, so I was wondering what this not- Bufflehead not-Ruddy Duck was….)

Fintan O’Toole, who has written a fantastic history of modern Ireland, is one of the most our astute chroniclers of the rise of American fascism. His latest on the the Trumpian habituation of state murder is a must read.