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Spring’s onslaught means I’m inevitably behind in these posts. These Trembling Aspen/Populus tremuloides catkins were popping a week ago and… …being dropped from above. Black-capped Chickadees and Tufted Titmouses were eating them (and/or insects within?).

Same bird; photos taken over a minute and a half.

(As always, clicking a photograph here will enlarge it.)

Two frisky young Red-tails. A few minutes later, there were six hawks in the air above me over Green-Wood. All seemed to be Red-tails. There was also a Turkey Vulture. It was actually chased away by one of the RTs.

Some pigeon-plucking sights.

As a large adult female (presumably, because it seemed larger) Red-tailed Hawk perched above the Dell Water… A bird about half a year old flew back and forth stalking the various bird feeders set up there. Well, yes, the hawk did lumber-dive the short distance towards the American Goldfinch, who flicked away effortlessly.

The coast of Brooklyn is mostly inaccessible. But here and there… You can’t actually see the telling details in my pictures, but this is, by all accounts (dozens now on ebird), a Western Meadowlark (Sturnella neglecta). At Bush Terminal Park. Walking northwards on 2nd Avenue, as close as a civilian can get to the bay…

Ah, the winter orange! (Probably put out by bird-feeders.) Sciurus carolinensis/orange joins the rogue’s gallery: Sciurus carolinensis/nutella Sciurus vulgaris/ice-cream (Sweden)

“Circumambulate the city of a dreamy Sabbath afternoon…,” sure it’s only the bay, but…