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Barn Swallow
It’s always dark under this bridge. This Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica) nest, made of mud and muck-matter, is a year old and being used again. Nearby is a two-year-old nest that is being re-used again after a vacancy last year. Here are some gathering mud like the masons they are.
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Taking Off
For the next two weeks, I’ll only be minimally blogging as I explore some new terrains and habitats. Back soon….
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An Inordinate Fondness
J.B.S. Haldane is supposed to have said that the creator must have a special fondness for stars and beetles, because there are so many of them. And some of them — the beetles, not the stars — are awfully small. There are 350,000-400,000 species of beetle — the exact number is probably impossible to know…
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Non-compliance, no enforcement
Fishing garbage found in the Lullwater. No hooks on this mess, luckily, but we’ve all seen the damage this shit does to birds and mammals right here in Prospect Park. We gathered it up and canned it, since the fish-torturer was too much of an asshole to do so. Signs are a joke without enforcement:…
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Raptor Wednesday
An all-Peregrine edition: a Working Harbor tour leaving from Manhattan’s Pier 11 gave me an opportunity to walk by 55 Water Street, where four little falcons continue to get their wings. Sitting on the cam was one of the scrape’s adults. Then, as we waited for the Hamilton Avenue drawbridge to open up and let…
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