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Poop Mold
Dew-dappled mold on Canada Goose (probably) dropping. Look closer still and you will see these tiny clear or yellow stalked orbs of pin molds. (Impossible to photograph.)
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Raptor Wednesday
Sub-adult Bald Eagle. Adult Red-shouldered Hawk. Was circling with three Great Blue Herons. The next day, a juvenile Red-shouldered Hawk was going around and around. Adult Cooper’s Hawk. Red-tailed Hawk after a bath. All within a mile of home here in Brooklyn.
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Scaup
This is the first Greater Scaup I’ve seen so close-up. Usually, they’re off-shore and you’re battling the sea wind to see them. This one was on Sylvan Water, a freshwater pond, in Green-Wood Cemetery the other day.
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Etymology
On first looking into Chapman’s Homer, or rather, let’s be real, a quotation from it in a third party, my eyes slid home on this: All done, he all to Thetis brought, and held all up to her./ She tooke them all, and like t’ hawke (surnamed Osspringer) This is the at the end of…
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Crustaceous Tuesday
I can’t get enough of these Mud Fiddler Crabs/Minuca pugnax of the Gowanus Canal.
Backyard and Beyond 