A gorgeous male intricately patterned Harlequin Duck on the water
What’s your favorite bird named after a commedia dell’arte stock character? Mine is definitely the Harlequin Duck. 🪶
I live in the Bronx and I estimate I smell it about 75% of the time I leave my house.
. . . spring is when
the flowers say “hello”
Can’t wait for the piece on our 76 year war with North Korea.
A male bufflehead on the water chasing away two males and a female.
I witnessed a Bufflehead brawl 🪶 #bronx
Ames, Iowa has the highest per capita transit usage of any small city in the US.
A gray and white tufted titmouse perched on a small branch
A Tufted Titmouse landed right in front of my camera lens, so I took its photo. 🪶 #bronx
To be fair, I have seen a Snowy Owl in a tree more than once.
A red-breasted nuthatch on the right side of a tree trunk and the butt of a white-breasted nuthatch poking out from behind the left side of the trunk.
🚨🚨🚨 Double Nuthatch 🚨🚨🚨
🪶 #bronx
Have you considered that traffic might just grind to a complete halt as drivers zoned out on their phones have no way to be notified that the light turned green 10 seconds ago?
Jeff Tweedy from Wilco. IIRC the extended noise section at the end of Less Than You Think is his attempt to sonically recreate a migraine.
NYC Bird Alliance has a program called Project Safe Flight where they count dead birds on the sidewalk during migration. Their estimate is that 230,000 birds are killed each year by windows in NYC. I believe 1 WTC is the biggest culprit.
A male Eastern Bluebird in profile perched on top of a stick.
I saw an Eastern Bluebird🪶
I know exactly where this is. My in-laws live nearby. There is absolutely no reason not to develop that property.
I go birdwatching a few times a week and almost never see dead birds. I saw three dead geese last weekend. The consensus in the birding community is bird flu.
Looks like a 2009 indie rock album cover
Don’t forget about wear and tear and depreciation on the car!
Nobody loves David Koch, but seeing his name before watching a PBS program and when I walk by Lincoln Center softens his image a bit for me.
A female Eastern Bluebird poking her head out of the hole in a wooden nest box.
It’s never too early for an Eastern Bluebird to start claiming a nest box. 🪶
A gray squirrel perched in a tree gnawing on a chicken bone.
Happy Valentines Day from this squirrel gnawing on a chicken bone.
A Crested Caracara sharing a dead nestling bird to eat with its partner who is perched on the edge of their humongous nest in a saguaro cactus.
Relationships goals for Valentines Day. 🪶
There are usually a few overwintering Golden-crowned Kinglets in my area, but I haven’t seen any yet this year. I’m hoping to see a migrant within the next few weeks.
The distant silhouette of a great horned owl against a pink and orange sunset.
I spied a Great Horned Owl silhouetted against the sunset. 🪶
An American Tree Sparrow with a rusty cap and a half-yellow bill perched on a stick.
I saw my first American Tree Sparrows of the year at Shawangunk Grasslands National Wildlife Refuge 🪶
My wife and I looked at houses that had separate mosquito control district and library district taxes. The house next door was in the same town, but in a different district and therefore had a different tax rate!
My entire neighborhood is covered in black ice. My son almost fell at a crosswalk. We watched his friend eat it just outside the school. My brother said he saw someone being loaded into an ambulance on the way to the train.
I only get a bad tap on a bus about 10% of the time, but if I get two bad taps in a row, the driver just waves me on to avoid delaying boarding.
I’d just buy beaters and crash them into telephone poles until they build a subway to my front door.
The wind chill be will be 20 below on Sunday. I will be birding from my kitchen window. Might refill the feeder if I feel brave.
