A plethora of pellets under a couple of pines… (Coin with no-account President on the flip side is just over an inch long.)

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Nothing to see here, just some pine-branch stumps…

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Sylvan Water from a distance: ducks on the edge of the ice. Getting closer… a couple of Hooded Merganser males making ripples away from me. Male Bufflehead, and the two male Hooded bookending a female Hooded. And here’s the anomaly: a female Common Merganser/Mergus merganser. This is the first I’ve seen in Green-Wood. The thick…

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What a purple! A couple of Purple-spored Puffballs/Calvatia cyathiformis.

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I see Peregrine(s) atop St. Michael’s fairly often. But I’m usually two long blocks away… Sometimes, I manage to capture a quick fly-by. So when this silhouette caught my eye in Green-Wood recently, my first thought was it was too big for a Merlin. Oh my, yes.

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It’s been a great winter for White-breasted Nuthatches in Green-Wood. Red-breasted Nuthatch sightings have been a much rarer occurrence. One or two is the most I’ve seen. This feeder has been very reliable for at least one.

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A mouthful of sawdust spewed out…

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A Red-tailed Hawk was looking for a moaning Gray Squirrel in a thicket below. Two Blue Jays were harrying the hawk. Then this Cardinal flew up to a branch below the hawk and started to twist around in place on the branch. Eye on the hawk much of the time…

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