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An eyelid like parchment. (Which makes sense since parchment is skin.) This Great Blue at Valley Water has been very tolerant of people… unless, of course, it’s hoping to lure one in.

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Red-bellied Woodpecker finding something to eat in the space between mausoleum blocks. Looks “got,” whatever it was.

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A Black-capped Chickadee took a break from the feeder to look behind clumps of lichen on tombstones. Several clumps, on different stones. The bird was finding something, but what? Looks like a seed sans husk above, but in the first image, it looks like it could be an arthropod …

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Red-tailed Hawk on antenna tower. Peregrine. Young Bald Eagle. Merlin atop PS24 telecom jumble. Coopers like to perch up here as well.

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There was a Coopers Hawk overlooking the bird-feeder while I took the photos posted on Monday and Tuesday. I also saw these other raptors while I was there: This juvenile Red-shouldered Hawk passed by. I suspect my presence made the bird veer away from the feeder. Juvenile Red-tailed Hawk overhead. Announcing himself with loud cries,…

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Mid-November. Almost nothing is in bloom, but the higher -than-average temperatures are still bringing out insects. Where can they eat? A patch of still producing Symphyotrichum asters. A single Solidago goldenrod. That stinking Tansy/Tanacetum vulgare is still puttering away…

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