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Merlin. Here as four (4) Red-tailed Hawks cavorted overhead. Two of the quartet. One of them chased the falcon off this perch… But the feisty little one came back and zoomed the big buteo.

And scollops and oysters and…

January 12: first time I’ve spotted the male American Kestrel on the nest cornice this year.

An adult Cooper’s Hawk has frequently been seen around the Monk Parakeet nest complex on the 5th Avenue entrance of Green-Wood. This time, the bird was on the nest. And all the parakeets were away.

A few days after coming across a young Cooper’s Hawk eating a pigeon, I heard about the remains of a young Cooper’s Hawk in the very same place. Of course I had to go over to check it out. So who might have plucked and eaten a Cooper’s Hawk? Another Cooper’s Hawk is not out…

Exotic Wintersweet was blooming on Tuesday, which was well below avarege temperatures.* Last year’s fruits still on the shrub. *Average cold of late that is; when I was a boy the Hudson would freeze over and wolves would cross the ice from New Jersey.

A male American Kestrel jumping from one from funerary column to another.