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Raptor Wednesday
Four of the last five times I’ve been down to Bush Terminal Park, I’ve spotted a female American Kestrel. She must recognize me, too. More falcon news: I hear there are four eggs at the 55 Water St. Peregrine nest.
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Infrastructure
A temporary side-walk shed, put up to protect pedestrians on the sidewalk from construction, is supporteded by narrow I-beams. Where they come close: a space ripe for any kind of weaver finch. Right across the street from Green-Wood Cemetery, one of the ground-zeros of the introduction of the House Sparrow to North America. A female…
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Solar Eclipse
Today’s the day of the solar eclipse sweeping across North America from northern Mexico to Newfoundland. There won’t be another North American one for 20 years. Get out there and check it out; remember, no looking at the sun directly, and regular sunglasses aren’t good enough, so if you don’t have eclipse-certified viewing glasses, try…
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Pollination
An early spring flower, Claytonia, and an early spring Andrena bee. There was one bee. This was the second flower. Didn’t even have to fly to the third flower.
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Foraging
To put it in terms Republican voters for tyranny will understand, yesterday’s earthquake in the northeast and Monday’s eclipse mean the gods are very angry at their worship of a devil they’ve clothed in particularly ill-fitting messiah’s clothing. Meanwhile, did NYC Mayor-of-Pay-to-Play Eric Adams hear about the earthquake in advance from his underground crystal connection?…
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Crow & Gull
Unique white feathers as eyebrow on this corvid. Note sure if this is a Fish or an American Crow. Usually Fish predominate down here at the city’s edge, but I did hear an American just before spotting this one. Ring-billed Gull, a fellow scavenge, enters the scene. (Actually, off-stage there are several.)
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Killdeer on the Rocks
Killdeer having been hanging out at and around Bush Terminal Park for a while now. They nest in a huge lot slated for a big film & TV studio, with, appropriately for such a manufactory of fantasy, a highly-suspect number of created jobs being. The one above was foraging along the edge of the water,…
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Raptor Wednesday
A meal for a male American Kestrel, although this time of year he may also be delivering to his mate. Spotted at the entrance of Bush Terminal Park, where I’ve never seen a Merlin. One of regulars, a passing-through migrant, a bird thinking about nesting locally? These two are getting it on, and taking nesting…
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Warning: Plant Porn
Just wait until the fundamentalists find out that flowers have BOTH SEX PARTS. Cats and dogs living together! If this isn’t “Trans Indoctrination,” I don’t know what is. If you haven’t heard, some fascist canon-fodder got a book pulled from a middle grade community reading event in Virginia because it has an oak in it.…
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