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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…

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…