Phlegmacium flavescentipes.

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Fish Crows. Ring-billed Gull. American Herring Gull, and is that a fish head? Common Loon.

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White-winged Scoter/Melanitta deglandi close to shore. And further out, Black Scoters/Melanitta americana.

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Snails are hermaphroditic so perhaps it is not surprising that the German word for snail, Schnecke, was masculine in Middle High German but became feminine in Modern High German. Snail in German, French, and Latin can be slang for vulva. Hegel thought snails upset taxonomic order; he presumed they reproduced body parts like plants. There’s a

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These give you a good sense of how small Bufflehead Ducks, and/or how big Mallards are. The same day the above were on Crescent Water, There was a female Ruddy on Valley Water, keeping on eye on threats from above.

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The female seen regularly in Sunset Park. This time a Northern Mockingbird was raising a ruckus about her.

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