Green-Wood
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Raptor Wednesday
It’s been a while since I’ve had a close encounter with any raptor other than my neighbors the #BrooklynKestrels. On Sunday I walked into this. A Red-tailed Hawk, who had probably bathed earlier and was now grooming, perched fairly low in a dogwood. And nobody was happy about it but me. A pair of Baltimore…
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Amberwing
Perithemis tenera. *** I found this, on the carbon bombing of the planet and the fatalism that induces in some, interesting.
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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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Odonata Season
I saw my first living dragonfly outside my windows on Saturday. I’d seen a couple of Common Green Darners here and there during the last few weeks, but spotting an unidentified dragon over 6th Avenue was the real start of the summer flying season for me. On the same day around Green-Wood’s Sylvan Water, I…
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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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No. Ro. Wi.
Rare to see a swallow perched. Yet Northern Rough-winged Swallows, they of the long name, seem to do it more than the Barn and Tree Swallows they were sharing the Sylvan Water’s insects with. Stelgidopteryx serripennis, scraper wing saw feather.
Backyard and Beyond 