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The Wood Ducks have returned!
Prospect Park Lake
Brooklyn, New York
Brooklyn’s Most Beautiful
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Silly Goose
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Prospect Park,
Brooklyn, New York
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Swan Boat
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Marine Park Salt Marsh,
Brooklyn, New York
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The Swan Whisperer
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The young girl was extraordinarily patient with the swan, gently cooing and making slight flapping movements of her arms as if she, too, were a bird. She continued to make little gestures to welcome the swan who, in a trusting manner, gradually approached more and more closely. The girl and the swan were in direct communication with each other. All of the other strangers watching this close encounter, including myself, were mesmerized. When eventually the young girl walked off with her mother, her mother turned to her and said with amazement, “I didn’t know you could talk Swan.”
Marine Park Salt Marsh
Brooklyn, New York
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Green Teal
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Green head stripe, green speculum, vertical white body bar, like the guidebook says 🙂
Consumnes River Preserve
Galt, California
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Hawkeye
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Red-tailed Hawk
Staten Island Rd
Lodi, California
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Sandhill Crane
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Sandhill Crane
Staten Island Road
Lodi, California
Thanks to Sister Bev for taking us there!
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It Was A Berry Good Year
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For this Cedar Waxwing, feasting on a slew of winterberries.
Boston, Mass
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Pheasant-Under-Grass
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I’ve been looking for this guy all year! A year ago, I caught a fleeting glance of him, but way too briefly to get a photo. With the advent of autumn, however, the Marsh bushes where he hides have been cut back–and this week I saw him running across his former stomping grounds to some still remaining bushes further off.
Ring-necked Pheasant
Marine Park Salt Marsh
Brooklyn, New York
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Up Close And Personal
A gorgeous Barn Owl, one more raptor on display last week.
Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
Jamaica, New York
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Small, But Plucky
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This beautiful bird is an American Kestrel, sometimes called a sparrow hawk. It is part of the falcon family and it is the smallest of the raptors, about the size of a blue jay. It will eat, well, sparrows as well as mice, lizards and insects, and even starlings.
Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
Jamaica, Queens
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You Talkin’ To Me?
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Injured Bald Eagle and bird rehabilitator
Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
Jamaica, New York
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Secret Identity Uncovered
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These little guys had me puzzled–so many sandpipers look alike to me! But when they did a short flight, they gave themselves away: their white rumps in flight marked them as–what else?–White-rumped Sandpipers. A first for me.
Plumb Beach
Brooklyn, New York
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Intruder
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Marine Park Salt Marsh
Brooklyn, New York
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Keeping Posted
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Osprey
Marine Park Salt Marsh
Brooklyn, New York
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Early Bird, Worm
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Well, I screwed up yesterday and posted twice, which seems appropriate since I rarely know whether I’m coming or going. Here’s a photo for Sunday so we’re back on track again.
Prospect Park
Brooklyn, New York
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Splendor In The Grass
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Yellow-crowned Night Heron
Marine Park Salt Marsh
Brooklyn, New York
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One Good Tern Deserves Another
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Terns are tough for me to identify specifically, so while I’ll guess they’re Common Terns, there are some other possibilities.
But I am eating my heart out that there wasn’t another one nearby so that I could title the post, “Tern, Tern, Tern…”
Marine Park Salt Marsh,
Brooklyn, New York
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Who Was That Masked Bird?
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Laughing Gull
Marine Park Salt Marsh
Brooklyn, New York
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Statuesque
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Great Egret
Prospect Park
Brooklyn, New York
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The Eagle Has Landed
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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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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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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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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
