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Kestrels On Sunday
Hardest working dad in Brooklyn? Poppa Kestrel has been weaving around a posse of angry American Robins at the Old Chapel lizard-hunting grounds. And there goes another lizard, being ferried back to the nest site. And speaking of the nest site…
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Lady Beetles
Fourteen-spotted Lady Beetle Asian Lady Beetles Scymnus genus Firefly Duskyling, I think. Convergent Lady Beetle Two examples of Variegated Lady Beetle
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How About Some Bees?
Great Northern Bumble Common Eastern Bumble Lasioglossum (?) Rufous-backed Cellophane Neighborly Mining Eastern Carpenter (“robbing” Penstemon flower of nectar) European Woolcarder Brown-belted Bumble Hylaeus (?) Megachile
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Monarch Monday
Just a couple millimeters of larva on Common Milkweed… Here’s a nearby male. But what is happening to some of the Common Milkweed here? What’s making it wilt and shrivel up? I had thought this stuff was pretty indestructible.
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More Ravens
Still reporting on last Sunday’s Raven scene. Here’s one the adults transporting an egg. Definitely one of their favorite foods. I once saw them take individual eggs from a Costco 18-pack. Meanwhile, three nestlings. The one on the right is clearly the next to fledge. On Monday, the first fledgling (on top rail) was back…
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Breeding Season
Common Grackle and Baltimore Oriole chase a crow. Looks like the Grackle made contact!
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Ravens, Continued
Food for the fledgling… only the fledgling had to come and get it, which the bird could not do while we were there. Gutter-water break for the parent. Lots of calling.
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