Rob Jett, who has been blogging about Brooklyn nature even longer than I have, pointed out these two winter roosting holes our visiting Red-head Woodpecker has excavated in the same tree.

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Unusually for our parts, a juvenile Red-headed Woodpecker/Melanerpes erythrocephalus has taken up residence in Green-Wood. There’s a good bit of red already in this bird’s head, but a lot more is to come.

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After a sortie, this American Kestrel came back with an entangled leaf.

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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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