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I think the orange fungi is Golden Ear/Naematelia aurntia parasitizing Stereum.

Back in late January, we had a week of winter. The ice on Sylvan Water was doing cool things as it melted.

A neighbor seeing me take photos said Peregrines on this church bell-tower cross in Windsor Terrace were a common sight. I don’t pass by here frequently, but I might have to now, especially since a pair of Ps were around last breeding season. She said plucked feathers were often floating down into her backyard.

Last Sunday was an epic day for the Brooklyn Raptor Observatory. From the forth floor, I spotted a Merlin and a Cooper’s Hawk during the morning. That’s the Coop above; no pic for the Merlin. Then, over a 3.5 hour walk, I spotted a Peregrine eating atop a Windsor Terrace church. An American Kestrel flying…

Common on Prospect Park Lake, but uncommon on Green-Wood’s ponds. These two were on the cemetery’s Sylvan Water for at least three days recently.

L.C. Tiffany’s lamps are beyond famous, but did you know his firm also made headstones? There are some 60 in Green-Wood Cemetery, which also happens to be where Tiffany and family members are buried. I think people may be surprised about the Tiffany plot. There’s no mausoleum; no stained glass, just some rather simple, elegant…