Same American Kestrel male on same perches above, but a few days earlier. Another male Kestrel, elsewhere. Female Kestrel with lizard prey.

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The photographer was probably aiming at the Green Heron… …when, a tad unusually, a midday bat flung into the scene. And it may not have been all right… Ploop! For the creature ditched in Valley Water. The City Birder offered the bat a life-stick… Which was accepted. Rob gave the bat a shady oak to…

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Squirrel. Not squirrel.

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Common Snapping Turtle with what’s been identified for me on iNaturalist as a Largemouth Bass. Blub blub blub… Then a second enormous Snapper caused a stir.

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Three baby Ravens! (May 8) Hmm, is that a Robin’s egg? Curious American Kestrel nestling. (Just wait till she spots that UFO!) Mourning Dove. Under a different pine, what I think is another Mourning Dove’s egg. Two of at least three Mourning Doves. Another crow’s nest. I haven’t determined if this is American or Fish,…

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When I exit Green-Wood at 4th Avenue and 35th Street, I turn left to head home. As I do so, I eyeball the Sacre-Coeur-stupa of St. Michael’s on 4th and 42nd St. From that distance, I’m looking for more of a disturbances of the Force than anything definite. Raptor, gull, corvid? As I move closer,…

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My first sighting of an Odonata species this year was on April 28. The recently emerged adult was a Fragile Forktail. Posing here on cherry blossoms piled up on the opposite side of the pond from the trees. Nearby was an inch-long nymph or naiad stage damselfly. This could very well be another Fragile, one…

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