birds
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More Green Heron
Note the tongue. The fish were jumping.But the problem remained.It’s a long way down to the water.
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Mockingbird
In three-quarter view. And in the sound…
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Raptor Wednesday
Notice anything on this bare branch of a avian perch, I mean besides a male American Kestrel and some whitewash?Closer… On Monday, you may have been puzzled by my statement about the first living dragonfly seen this year outside my window. Because I’d seen these remains earlier. It’s a dragonfly wing and what looks like…
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Heron & Duck
I arrived in New York City 25 years ago today. Via the George Washington Bridge. I somehow made it down to the East Village on the FDR and… and… found parking! I have lived here ever since, with the occasional foray to here and there; over here, here, and here; and over there, there, there,…
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#BrooklynKestrels
Female.Male. He lost one of his middle tail feathers. It was broken more than half way down and hanging at odd angles by a rachis thread for a whole day.Then he had a piece of head fluff coming off the top for most of another day. There have been almost daily Fish Crow/American Kestrel battles.…
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Birds, Flowers, Castle
Winding down with the reports from our trip to Sweden. Here’s Buskskvätta. Whinchat (Saxicola rubetra).These white flowers were everywhere.Anemone. It was a very good year for them, people said.My first ever cranes in the wild! Here’s Grus grus, the European Crane, known as Trana in Swedish. There was a pair nesting in the distance. One…
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Raptor Wednesday
Red tail feathers coming in! This Buteo jamaicensis looks like it was one of last year’s fledglings. They don’t get their brick-red tails until they’re a year old. Also a good view of the cummerbund-like belly-band that most of our best-dressed eastern Red-tailed Hawks sport.
Backyard and Beyond 