Packard’s Wave/Cyclophora packardi Faint-spotted Angle/Digrammia ocelinata Citrine Sallow/Pyreferra citrombra Now for some moth larvae: Spongy Moth/Lymantria dispar on Northern Red Oak. This chewed up, crumped up Northern Red Oak leaf had a small caterpillar inside: Maybe a member of the Tortricide Leafroller family. When I opened up the leaf shelter, it hurriedly escaped, dropping quickly…

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Remember those American Robin eggs from May 4th? At that time, there was no parent around. Here’s the view on May 15th. (I’m not getting close enough to flush the bird.)

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I would have been hard pressed to figure out what this was if a parent bird hadn’t been foraging and chipping nearby.

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Narcissus Build Fly/Merodon equestris Common Eastern Bumblebee/Bombus impatiens This weekend I’ll be doing two of my Bugging Out walks for Green-Wood Cemetery. Details on the Tours page. Nomada genus bee, maybe N. luteoloides.

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Construction at Sylvan Water, Green-Wood Cemetery’s largest pond, has necessitated a severe lowering of the water level. Mud or murk, flats have resulted. This has attracted some Solitary Sandpipers and both waterthrushes. But pictured today is a rarer visitor to the interior of the borough: Least Sandpier/Calidris minutilla. The bird, in seeming response to a…

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The fencing here surrounds one side of an empty warehouse building. Canada Geese are on both sides of the fencing. Sharp eyes will see at least three of the feral cats in the mix at well. I counted sixteen goslings in the area on Saturday, not including the ones in the water at nearby Bush…

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On January 1st, 2015, I saw Common Ravens for the first time in Brooklyn. A pair were cavorting on the block of 39th Street between the water (“0 Avenue”?) and 1st Avenue. An abandoned building, which is still abandoned, was the stage of their canoodling. Yesterday, I saw the above bird over the same block.…

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