mammals
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Mammal Monday
Dead raccoon’s back foot. Exterior wanted in. Interior didn’t want the exterior inside. Exterior got in. Lots of squabbling in the trees now, two three four five squirrels racing up and down, leaping between trees. I saw two squirrels fall recently, one from about eight feet in a squirrel-tussle and one from even higher as…
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Just Batty
A Green-Wood gardener called my attention to two Eastern Red Bats hanging from maple leaves in the cemetery last week. These were at eye level. Who knows what was further up…. Looking like old leaves or rotten fruit/cones, this is their day camouflage. I’ve seen the occasional bat in flight in Brooklyn over the years.…
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Mushroom/Mammal Mashup Monday
Watched this one eat two small gilled mushrooms that it rooted out of the sward.Discarded the woodsy stems…
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Whistlepigs
dewy grass wet-bellied woodchuck good morning I come across woodchuck/groundhog holes in Green-Wood with some frequency. (Good to keep at least one eye on the ground there, lest you miss a grass-clutching moth or a one-way trip into the underworld…) But I hadn’t seen an actual Marmota monax for some time until last weekend. A…
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Mammal Monday
Dirty squirrel digging up an old nutty something or other. And CRONCHING it!
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Mammal Monday
Why yes, this Common Raccoon does seem to be splayed belly-up in a tree crotch on a hot, humid day. One can only imagine the nocturnal debaucheries this beast has been up to. **** This post dedicated to David Burg, who passed away suddenly on Saturday. He was about 70 and died while walking in…
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Mammal Monday
Eastern Chipmunks (Tamias striatus) are few and far between in Green-Wood. I see them there rarely, but the other day a wren-brown spot in the distance, which I thought might, in fact, be a wren, turned out to be this one. There are rather more Chimpmunks in Prospect Park. The closest these two green islands…
Backyard and Beyond 