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Another roll of the duck wheel…
This time it’s a female Wood Duck on half-iced Crescent Water. Perhaps because there wasn’t that much open water, this was an unusually close-up duck, so I got some fair photos. Typically, this species paddles away to the far side of the local ponds as quick as can be. (Reflection in water reversed.)
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Waterfowl Roulette
You never know what you’ll see on Green-Wood’s ponds. This time of year, there’s also the question of ice. On this particular day, without about half the water frozen: A female Hooded Merganser and a male Bufflehead (one of two). And a female Wood Duck.
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Raptor Wednesday
Well, it wasn’t exactly the Feast of the Seven Fishes, but this male Kestrel grabbed a lizard off the ground and dispatched it like an appetizer and then three minutes later Caught a Dark-eyed Junco. I was suprised that the lizard was out and about. Big mistake, in retrospect. There was still some snow on
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Paper Rooms?
The big paper nests of Bald-faced Hornets are even found in street trees. Once I found a Tufted Titmouse digging out the remnants of one of these nests, presumably for what was left of the larval wasps. But this post is about a note in the weekly Hudson River Almanac, put out by the state
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Nuthatchin’
Pale Red-bellied Nuthatch foraging under a spruce, tossing things around, presumably looking for spruce seeds.
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“What has it got in its pocketses?”
Clearing out the closet and look what I found in several pockets?
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