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Raptor Wednesday
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…
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More Corvid Nesting
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…
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10 Years of Ravens
When I first moved to Sunset Park, this great industrial smokestack was frequently the perching place of Peregrine Falcons. Then Red-tailed Hawks took it over. On March 29th, I saw from a distance a Common Raven up there. Haven’t seen a Red-tail up there since. On March 30th, I saw Raven with food flying towards…
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Chickadee Bath
One, two, three, four… was it five? Black-capped Chickadees bathed one after another at this leafy backwater of Valley Water recently.
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Last Coop?
After two weeks without a Cooper’s Hawk sighting, this one on March 22nd. There has been some local breeding of Coopers in the last few years, but most of our winter birds head elsewhere during the breeding season. This female American Kestrel was not as pleased by the sighting as I was. This is Kestrel…
