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This osprey has just come back to its nest with a bunch of extra building material to keep it nice and warm.
Marine Park Salt Marsh
Brooklyn, New York
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Category Archives: Photography
Birch A-Peel
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This peeling birch is providing both insects and cover for the blue jay. Did you spot it right away?
Prospect Park
Brooklyn, New York
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A Modest Proposal
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Prospect Park
Brooklyn, New York
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April Showers
In this issue:
** Comedian/actress Margaret Cho talks with Prairie Miller about Anti-Asian racism and more
** Paul Robeson re-imagined in an excerpt from actor/playwright Tayo Aluko ‘s Paul Robeson’s Love Song
** Poet Paul Hostovsky with his humorous and trenchant poems.
** Photos from the larger-than-life Garden of Sculpture
And much more!
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Crooked Path
Prospect Park
Brooklyn, New York
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Good Dog
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Greenwood Cemetery
Brooklyn, New York
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Fashion Show
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This glamorous Wood Duck walks the model runway showing off for fellow birds.
Prospect Park
Brooklyn, New York
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Pond Life
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Prospect Park
Brooklyn, New York
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Red Square
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Prospect Park
Brooklyn, NY
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Small Circle of Friends
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Sometimes, from a distance, a Northern Shoveler can look like a Mallard to me. But it’s fun to see the ducks swimming in groups of concentric circles like in the zoomed-in photo above—then I can be pretty sure they’re Shovelers that I’m looking at, as they go round and round sifting the water near the surface for food with their bills.
Prospect Park
Brooklyn, New York
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Creepingness
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It was fun to watch this Brown Creeper (a lifer for me!) do its creeping thing: it started grabbing at the bottom of the tree and then crawled up the trunk fairly rapidly, digging into the bark with it’s thin downward curving beak for insects. When it reached near the top, it dropped dead down to the ground and started from the bottom of the next nearby tree. It repeated this pattern for quite some time.
Even though the bird was small and swift, it wasn’t hard to get the photo because its path was so regular and predictable that I could aim the lens and focus just a bit ahead of where I knew it was going to end up!
Prospect Park
Brooklyn, New York
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Looking For The Catbird Seat
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This young Grey Catbird was scampering out in the open, rather than hiding out under bushes as they usually like to do. They look a lot like Northern Mockingbirds, but their black caps and mewing sound clearly identify them.
Prospect Park
Brooklyn, New York
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Duck Soup
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When the lake freezes over, the birds have to squeeze into a smaller space in the un-iced parts of the lake, but the different species of ducks co-exist surprisingly well considering that they are all after a similar limited food supply of small plants and fish in the constrained area.
In this picture you can see the large Canadian Geese, the male and female Mallards with their wings spread, the small American Coots with their white bills and dark bodies, and lastly, a bunch of Northern Shovelers, standing in the back and floating in the water, dark green head and dark, flat-ended bills, and bodies with white breasts and brown flanks.
It was fascinating to see all these different kinds of birds band together and turn around as one when a few aggressive gulls approached; the gulls were not welcome to this party—perhaps they would not play well with others?—and the ducks soon mobbed the gulls and forced them to go elsewhere.
Prospect Park Lake
Brooklyn, New York
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Cuteness Points
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This jaunty little guy, a Tufted Titmouse, is a kind of bird I usually see hanging out with its cousin, the Black-Capped Chickadee, but this one was foraging all alone. They have a distinct way of flying from a branch down to the ground—they dive bomb straight down headfirst as if they were a gull about to catch a fish, so that even though they’re small, they can be identified from a distance.
Prospect Park
Brooklyn, New York
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Spring Is For The Birds
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First Robin I’ve seen since the beginning of winter. I trust the birds more than the groundhogs.
Prospect Park
Brooklyn, New York
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Birdland
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Prospect Park Lake
Brooklyn, New York
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Working For Peanuts
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Avenue U
Brooklyn, New York
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Morning Mourning Doves
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These Mourning Doves, despite the snow-covered ground, have found some tasty seeds and insects.
Marine Park Salt Marsh
Brooklyn, New York
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Downy Soft
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This male (the red nape) Downy Woodpecker looks a lot like a miniature version of its larger cousin, the Hairy Woodpecker. They’ve both got very similar markings including a white back, but the Downy is around 6″ compared to the Hairy’s 9″.
One advantage of trying to photograph birds in winter is that you can get a clearer shot without leaves in the way.
Marine Park Salt Marsh
Brooklyn, New York
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Gimme Shelter
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Marine Park Salt Marsh
Brooklyn, New York
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Japanese Garden
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Brooklyn Botanical Gardens
Brooklyn, New York
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Ruddy Duck
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Here’s the Ruddy Duck. They’re small and like to travel in large same-species groups. The male and female both have chestnut sides and backs, with sharp tails; the male has white cheek patches. In the photo above you can see two males in the foreground and a female behind them.
Prospect Park,
Brooklyn, New York
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February’s Feast
Celebrating our second year of publication!
Another great free issue of the Arts Express Newsletter
*Why was this Arts Express interview censored from YouTube with no explanation?…… An Arts Express Special featuring an extraordinary interview with Mike Africa Jr., member of the radical MOVE organization. He is also the subject of a new documentary about his parents, 40 Years A Prisoner.
*Art At A Time Like This presents a multi-borough billboard exhibition, “Ministry of Truth 1984/2020,” exploring issues of propaganda, censorship, and racial injustice in our present time.
*Dennis Broe on depictions of working-class families in recent television series.
*and much more!
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“The Path Is Made By Walking”
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Marine Park Salt Marsh
Brooklyn, New York
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Dejeuner Sur L’herbe
Manet’s painting at the bottom, and above, two views of the three-dimensional representation at the Garden For Sculpture. You can join me in an audio tour of the garden here.
