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Some more views of the young male seen included in yesterday’s post.

This female American Kestrel is not the same as this one. I think this one is a daughter of the first. Daughter with her brother. Here is that brother with his father. A closer look at dad. (All this within 30 minutes!)

An investigation revealed this to be a Bilobed Looper Moth/Megalographa biloba, dead of unknown causes, being recycled by ants. Just sitting out on a Common Milkweed leaf.

My first sighting of a Fifteen-spotted lady Beetle/Anatis labiculata. Only a handful of these have been reported in Brooklyn on iNaturalist. On Common Milkweed…

With their ample leaves, Common Milkweed plants are a convenient place to rest, recoup, and clean up.

Now for some hunters found on Milkweeds, waiting for visitors. In this case, the wait is over…

Northern Mockingbird trying to dislodge male American Kestrel. American Robin trying to do the same thing to female American Kestrel.

Big poops on a Common Milkweed leaf underneath a seriously chewed-back leaf? That’s a sign! Ah… not on the Milkweed, but down in the grasses, perhaps in retreat from all the rain. Two days later at the same patch, more eaten leaves, more poop. And ah-hah again! Was this the same individual? Maybe, but as…

One. Two. Three, or just another view of No. 2? I’m not sure; this tree was rather thickly leaved.