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Last Wednesday, I finally saw a pair of American Kestrels on these chimney pots located above last year’s nest. (The building usually sports a cornice line of Pigeons.) The picture above was from the day before; that’s the male. (I didn’t have my camera handy when I saw the two little falcons up there together).…

Resident since December, our young Red-headed Woodpecker has gotten more and more adult plumage over the winter months. The flag-crisp red/black/white patterning is really coming though now. Having defended various cavities from Starlings and Squirrels, what will this bird do now? It’s unlikely a mate will show up; this is an unusual species for Brooklyn…

American Woodcock/Scolopax minor surprised under a pine this week. There was another, then another, unless this third one was the first circling around.

A built in flower holder on a horizontal gravestone provides a well for this Northern Mockingbird.

On Monday, our boy was around his usual haunts around the historic chapel at Green-Wood. The day before I’d seen him at the old nest site. Still no sign of a female, however. I thought he might be hunting for lizards… But it was a Red-tailed Hawk I saw 50 minutes later who had a…

Yesterday, the first insects of spring!

The local recycling facility is not a landfill, but it sure attracts the crows and gulls. And, lately, again, a Swainson’s Hawk. In 2023, a young Buteo swainsonii showed up at this facility after spending some time on Staten Island. Last year, a Swainson’s was seen here again. And for a week or two recently…