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Hunting from obelisk to obelisk… …this male American Kestrel spots something below. Mantling over the prey… …and autofocus flubs it! The bird flew towards nearby trees. It took me less than a minute to find him again, but there was no sign of the lizard. Did he drop his prey, or stash it for later?

Virginia Springbeauty/Claytonia virginica. Spring Beauty Rust/Puccinia mariae-wilsoniae

Male Bufflehead preening, head-scratching.

I wrote about my vitreous detachment at Medium.

Same banded female American Kestrel on the same tree a few days apart. She’s still in the territory of this nesting pair: Who are still pretty busy… Speaking of copulating falcons, the 55 Water Street pair of Peregrines went at it the other day when I happened to tune into the falconcam. (Note: there are…

A couple of weeks ago I saw a crow in this crotch of a tree. The next thing I noticed was that the crotch was filled with sticks. Days passed. Once, when I was going by without a camera (it happens), I saw a crow perched near the nest. Then on March 30th, I managed…

Groundhog. Woodchuck. Whistlepig. Marmota monax.