The female seen regularly in Sunset Park. This time a Northern Mockingbird was raising a ruckus about her.

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There have been an usual number of Brown Pelicans/Pelecanus occidentalis between Coney Island and Breezy Point and across the bay towards Staten Island in the last month. The fishing is said to be very good…. On Saturday, I made my second trip to Coney Island to see them, and unlike the first time, voila!

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Two and a half dozen Black Skimmers/Rynchops niger lingering at Coney Island amidst the gulls and pigeons. Flushed by a loose dog.

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Lesser Black-backed Gull/Larus fuscus on the Coney Island beach, slightly smaller than American Herring Gull/Larus smithsonianus. Two views of a nearby Greater Black-backed Gull/Larus marinus, largest gull species in the world.

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Small flocks of American Goldfinches have been all over the cemetery lately. The crop of American Sweetgum seeds is still largely to come.

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Not that Honeybee haven’t had enough of Blue Jays, already…

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Nov. 13th. (A rather windy day.) Nov. 15th. (Gloomy.) She flew before I got closer. Nov. 20th. (Sunny!) Nov. 25th. (Back to overcast.) These are all from virtually the same place, one of two trees she favors overlooking the western end of Sunset Park.

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American Kestrel male flushed by Blue Jays.

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Spotlight on Cooper’s Hawks.

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