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An early spring flower, Claytonia, and an early spring Andrena bee. There was one bee. This was the second flower. Didn’t even have to fly to the third flower.

To put it in terms Republican voters for tyranny will understand, yesterday’s earthquake in the northeast and Monday’s eclipse mean the gods are very angry at their worship of a devil they’ve clothed in particularly ill-fitting messiah’s clothing. Meanwhile, did NYC Mayor-of-Pay-to-Play Eric Adams hear about the earthquake in advance from his underground crystal connection?…

Unique white feathers as eyebrow on this corvid. Note sure if this is a Fish or an American Crow. Usually Fish predominate down here at the city’s edge, but I did hear an American just before spotting this one. Ring-billed Gull, a fellow scavenge, enters the scene. (Actually, off-stage there are several.)

A meal for a male American Kestrel, although this time of year he may also be delivering to his mate. Spotted at the entrance of Bush Terminal Park, where I’ve never seen a Merlin. One of regulars, a passing-through migrant, a bird thinking about nesting locally? These two are getting it on, and taking nesting…

Just wait until the fundamentalists find out that flowers have BOTH SEX PARTS. Cats and dogs living together! If this isn’t “Trans Indoctrination,” I don’t know what is. If you haven’t heard, some fascist canon-fodder got a book pulled from a middle grade community reading event in Virginia because it has an oak in it.…

They eat dandelions, leaves and flowers.

A south-facing slope with open patches of dirt. Look closer… Here’s somebody’s nest. I had to come back another day to see her in there. Unequal Cellophane Bee/Colletes inaequalis. Looks like another. And another. Like most of our wild bee species, Cellophane bees are solitary nesters. They may aggregate their nests in suitable terrain. There…

Golden Dung Fly. Hey, it’s a living.

And a happy Bluebird is a well-fed Bluebird.