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Kestrel Snacks
The female on the look-out. She dropped down to the ground and then flew up to another perch with one of the local Northern Italian Wall Lizards. The first time I heard of lizards in NYC was when I saw a photo that was making the social rounds: this showed an American Kestrel carrying one…
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Giant Joe Pye
Across the bay, a mural in Jersey City reaches up 20 stories. (Closer view & details here.)
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At Last, Some Pollination
The emergent crocuses got some action when it reached about 65 last weekend.
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Raptor Wednesday
Sharp-shinned Hawk. Bald Eagle. Red-tailed Hawk. Coopers Hawk. Merlin. Amid the usual suspects, we’re missing only American Kestrels here. I’ll have more picture of them soon. I have’t seen a Red-shouldered Hawk this winter. The Swainson’s Hawk has returned to the recycling facility (our equivalent of a dump), but I haven’t personally seen it. The…
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Mammal Monday
Not Cruella de Ville or Susan Sontag.A Striped Skunk. Unfortunately not in good shape: canine distemper is riling the local population, just as they’re out and about mating. Bit a theme going here… this is a skull of a Common Raccoon. Rodent teeth in Great Horned Owl pellet.
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Kestrels on Sunday
She sees something down there. Something with a wing and bit of gristle: looks like some previous prey was cached and then retrieved. Not atypical behavior this time of year, when the female is eating like crazy to build up the energy to create eggs. Across the street was this male. Later both birds were…
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Waiting For The Dragonflies
Meanwhile, looking for them anywhere I can find them: in this case, in a couple of Samurai movies from the late 1960s. Above, the scale seems off, since the knife in the hand of the thrower looked to be about 8″. And here the kids seem to be using poles smeared with a birdlime-like substance…
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