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This guy working on something on a floating dock at Brooklyn Bridge Park was not being appreciated by a local Common Tern. You tell ’em! Long before I was into birds I was set upon by a host of either Common or Forster’s Terns on a beach on Nantucket during breeding season. Tern, duck! Duck,…

Near the end of our walk in Rockefeller State Park Preserve, an Eastern Milkshake on the edge of the path, which is an old road, scooted into the shrubbery as we came upon it. You can just the animal’s tail end in the center of the photo above. We thought that that would be the…

Migrants passing throughnin non-breeding plumage. Up to three dozen, a goodly number hereabouts, where fishing, feeding young, grooming, and loafing at Plumb Beach last weekend. A couple of these were banded, but were too far away for me to read/report.

The shed exoskeleton of an Atlantic Horseshoe Crab. And another, rather larger one. To grow, these arthropods must shed to expand. Yet another, along with a darker corpse. Another dead one. This one is tagged. I reported it to the USFWS, but don’t know if anybody is home there after the destruction wrote by the…

Fluttering at the dune end of Plumb Beach recently… An adult antlion, the first I’ve seen in NYC. This is a female Brchynemurus abdominalis. (Which makes it the first species of antlion I’ve identified.) This one is a male. I presume of the same species, for he was nearby.

Male Kestrel snacking on dragonfly. A female. Both observed from apartment. Osprey sightings from Plumb Beach. Red-tailed. If I didn’t see the tail, I’d say this was a juvenile with that chest plumage, but the tail is one-year-old or older red. Birds, bugs, & galls! I’ll be leading bird, bug, and gall walks in Green-Wood…