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Spring is on the wing if not yet the wind. The rustle of fall is still heard.

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Sometimes the Kestrel on the chimney pot stays there long enough for me to get out of the house and around the corner for a closer view, with less chimney heatwaves:

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Gentle ripples on Gravesend Bay reflect the business end of a passing Red-throated Loon.

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Trying a few branches…. This is something I’ve learned from observation: the wood they collect for nests is not off the ground, which is perhaps too suspect, but snapped from trees. This adult Red-tailed Hawk was right overhead in a couple of the London Planes lining 5th Avenue at the edge of Sunset Park.

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Common Loon/Gavia immer off Murre Point, as I’ll call this spot. Red-throated Loon/Gavia stellata. Love those still water reflections. Red-breasted Merganser/Mergus serrator Double-crested Cormorant/Nannopterum auritum One of the Scaup/Aythya; Greater, I think. Further out in the bay, a Surf Scoter/Melanitta perspicillata. The male’s colorful bill and back-of-the-neck white patch helps with ID from a distance.…

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