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Re: Rachel Carson
I finally read Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring in this handy new Library of America edition with an excellent introduction by editor Sandra Steingraber. Along with the chronology and notes, the volume puts Carson in a deep context of the burgeoning environmental activism of the 1950s, which was sparked in important ways by atmospheric nuclear testing.…
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More Green Heron
Note the tongue. The fish were jumping.But the problem remained.It’s a long way down to the water.
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Mockingbird
In three-quarter view. And in the sound…
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Raptor Wednesday
Notice anything on this bare branch of a avian perch, I mean besides a male American Kestrel and some whitewash?Closer… On Monday, you may have been puzzled by my statement about the first living dragonfly seen this year outside my window. Because I’d seen these remains earlier. It’s a dragonfly wing and what looks like…
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Odonata Season
I saw my first living dragonfly outside my windows on Saturday. I’d seen a couple of Common Green Darners here and there during the last few weeks, but spotting an unidentified dragon over 6th Avenue was the real start of the summer flying season for me. On the same day around Green-Wood’s Sylvan Water, I…
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Heron & Duck
I arrived in New York City 25 years ago today. Via the George Washington Bridge. I somehow made it down to the East Village on the FDR and… and… found parking! I have lived here ever since, with the occasional foray to here and there; over here, here, and here; and over there, there, there,…
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#BrooklynKestrels
Female.Male. He lost one of his middle tail feathers. It was broken more than half way down and hanging at odd angles by a rachis thread for a whole day.Then he had a piece of head fluff coming off the top for most of another day. There have been almost daily Fish Crow/American Kestrel battles.…
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Birds, Flowers, Castle
Winding down with the reports from our trip to Sweden. Here’s Buskskvätta. Whinchat (Saxicola rubetra).These white flowers were everywhere.Anemone. It was a very good year for them, people said.My first ever cranes in the wild! Here’s Grus grus, the European Crane, known as Trana in Swedish. There was a pair nesting in the distance. One…
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