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A trio of squawking Monk Parakeets alerted me to this hawk in a London Plane on 27th Street by 4th Avenue. With the low winter sun and the branches, this was the best photo I could get. I didn’t think much of the encounter until I went around the block and started coming up 26th…

It has been a good winter here for White-breasted Nuthatches. I see and hear them all over Green-Wood, especially but not exclusively at the bird feeding stations. This one was foraging along trunks and branches… And pulled out a seed from under the bark. Funny place for a seed, though, right? Is it a sunflower…

Midmorning Mourning Doves. Tower Parakeets. Secret recipe? More Feral Pigeons, with a Coopers Hawk on the left. This is fairly common sight from the windows of the Brooklyn Raptor Observatory. Sometimes the Starlings get into the mix as well.

Ubiquitous but elusive, at least for my camera. Here are two.

All the birds at the Dell Water bird feeder scattered as this adult Sharp-shinned Hawk/Accipiter striatus zoomed in low to the ground. It was unsuccessful sortie. No lunch. She (didn’t seem small enough for a male) circled neighboring Crescent Water for a bit before flying off. Almost a half hour later, as I approached another…

In the line of trees that border the train yard. Two blocks from home.