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Ohh thanks, just reading this!
Aw me too yay! 🙏
Human, why is the earth so dry?

Eastern Cottontail
9:24pm Tues 1/28
Bunny Hill
Central Park
#addMam
Thanks Chris! 🙏 I've seen juv hawks survive worse. A wildlife rehabber reminded me that hawks are virtually indestructible. That advice helped me see this juv's temporary lethargy & favoring of the one foot as healing measures vs signs of decline. Saw him hunt & fly well before he left the park! ❤️
Juvenile Red-tailed Hawk seen 3:45pm 1/11 in Carl Schurz Park. This was the first of three days he spent recuperating from injuries on his feet, left leg & lower body, likely inflicted by one of the larger, territorial hawks. He slowly improved & left the park. I miss him. #raptors #birds
House Finch seen at Carl Schurz Park on New Year's Eve 2024. He was part of cute little finch gang visiting the suet feeder by Gracie Mansion & raiding a nearby crabapple tree. #birds
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LOL free weights! I ran w/the sleek cassette Walkman in the 80s at college, jk that thing was chonkers. Little foam pads on the earphones & when the foam fell off it hurt. 🥲
Thank you! Love them all. So much to learn, one day at a time!
Carl Schurz Park's beloved leucistic House Sparrow known as Grandpa was seen enjoying the snow at 11am on Mon 1/6. He's not elderly & acts more like a friendly sparrow kingpin, roaming the park w/a posse. I've just read that his large black bib signals his status as an older, dominant male. #birds
Juv Big Blue Darter seen 11:22am Mon 12/23 on my block (UES lower 80s NYC). I'd been out birding all morning & saw this kid on my way home. Temp had climbed to apprx 18° by then & the cold air clashed w/warm air trapped by my lens hood to create wild distortion in the background. #raptors #birds
Thanks so much!!
Yes, Blue Dasher! We get tons in Central Park. Actually Big Blue Darter only really works for adult Coops, as their plumage is blue-gray on the back & wings (head is darker) compared to the brown & white coloring of juvs like this. But this nickname is the most common.
Yes! Nicknames for Coops incl Big Blue Darter (or just Blue Darter), Striker & Flying Cross. I support the AOS'
(@amornith.bsky.social's) current work of renaming 70-80 birds named for ppl who all happen to be white men. This project strips away a layer of institutional fuckery & I'm here for it.
Juv Big Blue Darter seen 2:20pm Sun 12/29/24 in Carl Schurz Park. He's 1 of at least 5 Blue Darters hunting in this park: 4 juvs (2 small/likely male; 2 much larger/likely fem) & 1 adult f. This small but tough kid rarely shows re a larger juv fem chases everyone out. NYC wild life. #raptors #birds
Happy New Year ❤️

Northern Cardinal
Sunday 12/29/24
Carl Schurz Park
NYC
#birds
Did you see the light this morning?
Sometimes there's this extra air
Sometimes I can keep my mouth open
I will stay if I dare.
-Fever Ray "What They Call Us"

[Cont juv Red-tailed Hawk, 12/21, Carl Schurz Park]
#raptors #birds @feverray.music-social.com.ap.brid.gy