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Raptor Wednesday
Later that same day, Sunday, I had two more sightings of Cooper’s around my apartment. Also had Cooper’s sightings on Monday and Tuesday. While Cooper’s hawks have been breeding in Prospect Park for three years now, fall and winter is definitely a time when we see more of them. Some are passing through, others seem…
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Raptor Wednesday
Dipping into Robert Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy, which celebrates its inexhaustible 400th year this year, I find in the glossary castril (kestrel) and tassel (tiercel, a male falcon). “[…]he is nobody that in the season hath not a hawk on his fist. […] The Persian kings hawk after butterflies with sparrows made to that…
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