mthew
-
-
-
Raptor Wednesday
Heading down 9th St towards the bridge over the Gowanus Canal, I spotted a familiar silhouette. The bird landed, and through the barbed wire atop a long gate, I spotted this male American Kestrel. Dining.
-
Last Monarchs?
Four of the five Monarchs I saw last Tuesday at Rockaway Beach, the terminus of Long Island, last stop before jumping off to New Jersey. (The last pictured was having trouble flying; kinda don’t think it was going to make it to Mexico.) And one more, on Saturday, October 18th, along the Brooklyn shore of…
-
Mammal Monday
The in-an-out dolphins were hard to capture on camera, but as we came back through the channel between Coney and Breezy Point, a pod got quite close to us. I had not been aware that there was more than one species of bottlenose dolphin. There are three. The local one is called Tamanend’s Bottlenose/Tursiops erebennus.…
-
Off The Rockaways
On Saturday, October 11, we were gifted a couple of spots on the American Princess Whale Watch cruise out of Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn. (Thank you,Regina!) It was an eventful trip. The sea was choppy in advance of the storm that hit that night; when I descended to the head near the end of the…
-
-
Seedling
This is a stump of a venerable Sassafras/Sassafras albidum they had to cut down in Green-Wood. (Luckily, it had a twin right next door….) Anyway, a Tuliptree/Liriodendron tulipifera has gained a roothold in a crack in the old wood.
Backyard and Beyond 