mthew
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Flying
Just hearing about the comment period for the East and West Pond Stewardship Plan at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. Comments accepted until the 7th. Yikes! Unlike the typical National Wildlife Refuge, run by U.S.Fish and Wildlife, JBWR is a National Parks Service operation, part of the Jamaica Bay National Recreation Area. (That’s right, it’s not…
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Azure Bluet
Other Odonates seen so far in NYC: Common Green Darner, Fragile Forktail, Black Saddlebags, Eastern Forktail, Blue Dasher, Familiar Forktail (tentative ID), Painted Skimmer, and one of the Pantala gliders.
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Mammal Monday
*** This Memorial Day, I’m thinking of my mother’s mother’s older brother, who lies buried in the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery in France. He was an artillery wagoneer, killed just a few weeks before Armistice Day in 1918.
