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Raptor Wednesday
Juvenile Red-tailed Hawk. Adult Red-tailed Hawk, pretty much the same place a couple of days later. Another day’s juvenile and adult combo. And another day’s.
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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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