Common Pouring-Glory/Ipomoea purpurea is out and about.

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Two samples of *something* on the same boulder piled up around a pier at Bush Terminal Park.

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Robert F. Kennedy started out in politics as a nasty little McCarthyite. By the time of his assassination in 1968, he was pretty far removed from that. His oldest son, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has had the opposite trajectory. He started out as an environmentalist, doing good work to clean up the Hudson River. Last…

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Female and male American Kestrel. I think the female is a youngster. Meanwhile, nearby at the Neo-gothic gatehouse, another pair were chasing each other about.

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On Saturday, a large lime-colored butterfly was racing around Janet’s Meadow in Green-Wood. I spent about fifteen minutes watching it zoom back and forth, across, and over the plants. Just as I was about to give up on it ever alighting anywhere, it started briefly perching on Partridge Pea plants. A Cloudless Sulphur/Phoebis sennae, if…

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A trio of Monarch caterpillars, all about 5mm long so far, eating Common Milkweed.

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A Megachile leaf-cutter bee chomps her way through a section of rose leaf. She abandoned this cut when it was about 9/10s done. Her second cut was successful, but: The bee dropped down with the leaf section, presumably losing it. OK, now a third leaf. This time, a successful cut and carry. At least to…

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American Sand Wasp/Bembix americana I saw one of these attempt several spots in this sandy path before settling in on this one and digging in. She will cache flies in here with her eggs. Microbembex monodonta. A little smaller than the Bembix. This species is a scavenger, which is a little unusual (locally), since most…

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Three American Kestrel seen around the old Chapel area within a few minutes of each other. A female above. Male. Another male, but this one is still in juvenile plumage.

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