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On January 1st, 2015, I saw two Common Ravens canoodling on an abandoned building down at the waterfront. I’d seen these large corvids in the Hudson Highlands, the Scottish Highlands, and out in the American west before this, and once or twice I’d seen them passing over this borough on the western end of Long…

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Speaking of magnolias, find yourself a Magnolia hypoleuca x virginiana ‘Nimbus‘ (oy!) in bloom and smell. Wowza!

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I’ve found at least 86 species of gall-inducers here in Brooklyn, amongst a rather depauperate and heavily invasive biota. I say “at least” because I’ve come across a few that have not yet been described. Check out the ever-expanding gallformers.org database.

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And here’s an American Dog Tick found at Four Sparrow Marsh years ago, the only Brooklyn location I’ve spotted a tick so far. These are the big three species in NYC. There’s also a Groundhog Tick, too?

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The wind had finally turned to come from the south overnight. There were Cape May, Black and White, Canada, Blackpoll, American Redstart, Black-throated Blue, Ovenbird, and Northern Parula in the awful light. (Not a single photograph of birds in the trees came out worthy of sharing.)

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NEWS: This coming Sunday, my partner Molly Nash Rouzie will be leading a plant walk at Green-Wood Cemetery. Called “Meet Your Green Neighbors,” this is an introduction to the flora of the native planting hillside by the old Chapel, where many of the insect photographs seen on this blog have been spotted. This is a…

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