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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It’s October?
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Brooklyn Botanic Gardens
Brooklyn, New York
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Life Goes On
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Brooklyn Botanic Gardens
Brooklyn, New York
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Surf’s Up
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Horseshoe Crab
Plumb Beach
Brooklyn, 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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Feeding Time
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Marine Park Salt Marsh
Brooklyn, New York
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Flutter By
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Poets Walk Park
Red Hook, New York
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The Gathering Storm
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Starlings convening before the rain
Marine Park Salt Marsh
Brooklyn, New York
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Bridge To Nowhere
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Red Hook, New York
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Salute To The Sun
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Germantown, New York
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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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Hymn of Life–Tulips, 2007: Yayoi Kusama
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New York Botanical Gardens
Bronx, NY
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Rest Stop
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New York Botanical Gardens
Bronx, New York
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Perhaps Tippi Hedren’s Nearby?
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Coney Island Beach
Brooklyn, New York
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Roots
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Greenwood Cemetery
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
