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Sunday began chill and damp. We started in Prospect and saw this Merlin. A Red-tailed Hawk flew over Prospect Park West in Windsor Terrace and landed here. As we got even closer to Green-Wood, a Red-tailed landed on the big radio tower at the school complex. It may have been the same bird. Nearing 5th…

Dandelion/Taraxacum Common Groundsel/Senecio vulgaris Fingered Speedwell (Veronica triphyllos); rare in the city. (Most of these early bloomers are introduced species.) Henbit Deadnettle/Lamium amplexicaule Red Maple Woodsorrel/Oxalis Hairy Bittercress/Cardamine hirsuta Ozark Witch-hazel/Hamamelis vernalis (indigenous, but also also introduced to the city) Persian Ironwood/Parrotia persica Red Deadnettle/Lamium purpureum First insect/flower interaction I’ve witnessed this year: Honeybee on…

Fallen from a Pin Oak.

At low tide, you can walk around the western end of Coney Island. There’s also a lot more of Coney Island Creek Park, seen here from adjoining Kaiser Park, at low tide. Those posts are part of the ferry dock that isn’t. There were a couple homeless people’s fires in the dunes, filling the air…

The long-time feeder hanging in the Callery Pear tree above Sylvan Water lost its home when the tree was cut down this winter. The feeder was moved to a pine nearby. Here are highlights of some ten minutes watching of the rapid-fire action among half a dozen Tufted Titmouses, Three White-breasted Nuthatches, one Red-breasted Nuthatch,…

Blue Jays in an absolute frenzy led me here. Big bird. Even bigger is the Eurasian Eagle Owl (with one of the great binomials: Bubo bubo), one of which has escaped the Central Park Zoo and is at liberty in Central Park. Also in unnatural wild news: an 4-5 foot (reports differed) American Alligator was…

Some sightings this month…