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Laughing Gulls
The crazy sound of summer: Laughing Gulls overhead along the city’s edges. And sometimes a bit further inland, as here where some rat-fancier has dumped a huge amount of old bread on a traffic island on Avenue U.
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Raptor Wednesday
My third Osprey sighting of the year, flying above the eclipse crowd at Green-Wood. The best place to see these fish-eating birds in Brooklyn is at Marine Park, where two nest platforms are occupied again this year. The one pictured above has been occupied for many breeding years. This one has been unoccupied for years,…
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Some New Species
New to me, that its. These first three are all introduced to the region from elsewhere. I found them all on the Wild West Side of Marine Park, amid the ATV tracks, cat/rat feeding stations, trash, and high tide wrack line right at the bordering road. What the what? Those eyes are all Hymenoptera, but…
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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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