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Lizards?
Earlier this year I heard that a local biology professor was responsible for releasing these Italian Wall Lizards/Podacris siculus all over the city. This explains their presence in Green-Wood Cemetery, where they definitely seem to be spreading from what must have been the original release site around the historic chapel. I heard this from one…
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Feed Watch
I one saw a Tufted Titmouse scavenging a dead Winter Wren. Maybe that’s why this Red-breasted Nuthatch was the aggressor here. The Big Liar’s “mandate” is of course bullshit.
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Pod-pecker
Sounding like a typewriter, this Downy Woodpecker was tapping away at Honey Locust seed pods. The woodpecker’s holes are quite different from the exit holes of the creatures I think the bird is hunting. Here’s one of the pods I found on the ground. There were two 3mm diameter exit holes on each side of…
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Blue Birds
Unexpected. Always welcome, thrillingly so. But not, perhaps, by perennially territorial Mockingbirds. I’ll be leading a Brooklyn Bird Club walk on Saturday, 11/23, starting at 8 a.m. in Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Corvids
The Raven on the right is farther away than the American Crows, but still noticeable larger. Bonus Red-winged Blackbirds passing by.
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Ocean Double Feature
This is a great book combo: Helen Czerski’s The Blue Machine explains why planet Earth should really be called planet Ocean. Susan Casey’s The Underworld takes us on journeys to the deepest parts of this Ocean world, the places until very recently we knew almost nothing about. A physicist and oceanographer, Czerski explains how the ocean works and how…
