With bonus crows…

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I can’t get enough of these Mud Fiddler Crabs/Minuca pugnax of the Gowanus Canal.

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Yellow-bellied Sapsucker in the same tree as a Downy Woodpecker. The Downy was doing some serious excavation. This is a Kentucky Yellowwood, which I’ve found these little woodpeckers on before digging hard for some kind of prey in there.

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This young Red-tailed Hawk just scooped up an American Woodcock off the ground. I caaught this iamge because I’d seen the Woodcock land down below and brought up my camera just as the bird flew again to land about 20 feet awy. That’s when the hawk swooped in, from I don’t know where. Then the

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A Varied Thrush/Ixoreus naevius last week in Prospect Park. A rarity here, but common on the West Coast, where they nest in coniferous forests. I last saw one in Central Park in 2010.

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Clustered Midrib Gall Wasp/Andricus dimorphus on underside of Swamp Chestnut Oak/Quercus michauxii.

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For the fifth straight year, I’ve spotted Merlins in this linden tree next to the Steinway Mausoleum in the fall, winter, and early spring. This was my first sighting for fall ’25, on October 26th. The Merlin flew away when this American Kestrel showed up. This tree is a great 360-degree lookout. The Kestrel flew

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