Yes, that’s a songbird leg. Typically, Kestrels will eat everything, down to the prey’s toes. She took her meal with her. (The difference in photo quality between this last shot and the previous ones is that the first four photos here were shot from farther away and through wire fencing; I’d already turned the corner…

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Here she is! Here he is. (The pigeons bolt each time the Kestrels fly in or out, but then they return with nonchalance.) Just below and to the left of the Kestrel is the entrance to the cavity nesting site the pair used last year and will presumably use again this year. From this angle,…

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Last Wednesday, I finally saw a pair of American Kestrels on these chimney pots located above last year’s nest. (The building usually sports a cornice line of Pigeons.) The picture above was from the day before; that’s the male. (I didn’t have my camera handy when I saw the two little falcons up there together).…

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Resident since December, our young Red-headed Woodpecker has gotten more and more adult plumage over the winter months. The flag-crisp red/black/white patterning is really coming though now. Having defended various cavities from Starlings and Squirrels, what will this bird do now? It’s unlikely a mate will show up; this is an unusual species for Brooklyn…

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American Woodcock/Scolopax minor surprised under a pine this week. There was another, then another, unless this third one was the first circling around.

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A built in flower holder on a horizontal gravestone provides a well for this Northern Mockingbird.

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On Monday, our boy was around his usual haunts around the historic chapel at Green-Wood. The day before I’d seen him at the old nest site. Still no sign of a female, however. I thought he might be hunting for lizards… But it was a Red-tailed Hawk I saw 50 minutes later who had a…

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