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A trio of Feral Pigeons, thirty-five (35!) Mourning Doves, and, in the upper right corner, a young Red-tailed Hawk. Everybody bolted when this big lug descended. No breakfast this time.

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Happy holidays, everybody! I can’t access my own posts on a couple different browsers/computers and I don’t know what the issue is. Judging from comments, subscribers seem to be getting emails with the daily raptors lately…but meanwhile, my statistics are jumping with visitors looking, or attempting to look at numerous pages when they come to…

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The russet front tells you this is an adult of several years’ age. Here’s one in juvenile plumage, all riled up because of, I presume, a bath.

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(Two different Accipiters and a Merlin on the same school communications array.)

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One of the above Red-tails is pictured below in more detail: In the spirit of that Boston TV channel that used to show all the Planet of the Apes movie on Christmas Day, “Christmas With the Apes,” I’ll be regaling you with raptor carols all week. For those of you new to this blog, you…

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I’ve have been waiting for this scene for a long time. Almost as long as waiting for an American Kestrel to perch on the raised hand of any of the statutes in Green-Wood. (I’ve seen that, but not long enough to get the camera on it.) This isn’t the only flagpole finial eagle found locally,…

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If you’ve been following this blog for a while, you may remember this memorable picture from 2015. The other night, I saw this very picture in a Zoom presentation by the Torrey Botanical Society. It was credited to somebody else! What the what? Not just anybody, but one of Trump’s criminal hacks, who was in…

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Two very recently cut trees about ten feet apart. Somebody has been beetle-larvaing through the heartwood of this one.

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