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An adult Cooper’s Hawk has frequently been seen around the Monk Parakeet nest complex on the 5th Avenue entrance of Green-Wood. This time, the bird was on the nest. And all the parakeets were away.

A few days after coming across a young Cooper’s Hawk eating a pigeon, I heard about the remains of a young Cooper’s Hawk in the very same place. Of course I had to go over to check it out. So who might have plucked and eaten a Cooper’s Hawk? Another Cooper’s Hawk is not out…

Exotic Wintersweet was blooming on Tuesday, which was well below avarege temperatures.* Last year’s fruits still on the shrub. *Average cold of late that is; when I was a boy the Hudson would freeze over and wolves would cross the ice from New Jersey.

A male American Kestrel jumping from one from funerary column to another.