Tuesday, July 1, 2025

A kite is back over Greenwood

Mississippi Kite (Ictinia mississippiensis) (1)
- Reported Jul 01, 2025 12:16 by MCHL ____
- Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6523083,-73.9904281&ll=40.6523083,-73.9904281
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S256022102
- Comments: "Unexpected! Between rain showers, caught it from a distance heading Southeast, seen roughly from The Greeter (George Catlin) statue. Lanky raptor with distinctive short front wingtips and striped wedged tail. Images."

"Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill."

Harper Lee,author To Kill a Mockingbird



   

PUMA in Bush Terminal Park

Purple Martin (Progne subis) (1)
- Reported Jul 01, 2025 07:05 by Nick Dawson
- Bush Terminal Piers Park, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6541609,-74.0204451&ll=40.6541609,-74.0204451
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S255943967
- Media: 2 Photos
- Comments: "Poor photos of female. New patch bird."

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                                                                            --Carl Sagan