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Late Late Bee
October 14. The day after a nor’easter, I went to Rockaway Beach. There were a lot of surfers. And this bee. There were quite a few of them on Northern Seaside Goldenrod. The only other bee in evidence was the Common Eastern Bumble. These three, bigger and with shorter antenna, are females of the same…
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Northern Seaside Goldenrod
Solidago sempervirens is still blooming into late October. What a trooper! It’s where we find our last bees of the year. These two Eastern Common Bumblees were spotted 10/14. Look at that pollen bundle! October 17: a small Lasioglossom. No pictures, but on Oct 18, more Common Eastern Bumbles on goldenrod in the tree pits…
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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.
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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