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Backyard Visitors
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Church Avenue.
Germantown, New York
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Keeping Posted
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Osprey
Marine Park Salt Marsh
Brooklyn, New York
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Feeling Crabby
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Fiddler Crabs
Marine Park Salt Marsh
Brooklyn, New York
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On The Move
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Not 100% sure, but I think it’s a Greater Yellowlegs.
On second thought, I’m going with it’s a Dowitcher.
Marine Park Salt Marsh
Brooklyn, New York
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Quality Family Time
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Our osprey friends who arrived a few months ago at the Marine Park Salt Marsh, are now on the lookout to make sure the two newborns are safe.
Marine Park Salt Marsh
Brooklyn, New York
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Shorely
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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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While It Lasts
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Magnolia tree in full bloom
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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Crooked Path
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
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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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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
