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Raptor Wednesday
On June 8th, I walked by the American Kestrel nest where I had seen three nestlings the previous Thursday. There was no sign of activity. Within the cemetery, I soon found this female fledgling. This is the same oak I found the fledglings in last year, on June 7, 2024. It is one of the…
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Wee Robins
Calling loudly. Young’uns like this are often mistakenly presumed to be in need of rescue, but as long as there aren’t any cats around, these fluff balls are likely fine; their parents will take care of them. I found this nest by looking up. Right over the sidewalk, these two were quite quiet. But this…
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Kestrels On Sunday
Hardest working dad in Brooklyn? Poppa Kestrel has been weaving around a posse of angry American Robins at the Old Chapel lizard-hunting grounds. And there goes another lizard, being ferried back to the nest site. And speaking of the nest site…
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Lady Beetles
Fourteen-spotted Lady Beetle Asian Lady Beetles Scymnus genus Firefly Duskyling, I think. Convergent Lady Beetle Two examples of Variegated Lady Beetle
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How About Some Bees?
Great Northern Bumble Common Eastern Bumble Lasioglossum (?) Rufous-backed Cellophane Neighborly Mining Eastern Carpenter (“robbing” Penstemon flower of nectar) European Woolcarder Brown-belted Bumble Hylaeus (?) Megachile
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Monarch Monday
Just a couple millimeters of larva on Common Milkweed… Here’s a nearby male. But what is happening to some of the Common Milkweed here? What’s making it wilt and shrivel up? I had thought this stuff was pretty indestructible.
Backyard and Beyond 