No, mine was in 2022. PT for it was awful. And holding up a camera with a big old zoom was rough to get back to! But made it eventually and you will too!!!

I know your pain. 😓
Wishing you much healing and arm-straightening.

Canal poonami, winter edition

Ah! Love their way of “hiding” 😂

Little birds are not intimidated by this redtail, at all. Kept buzzing it, no matter the perch it flew to. Eventually the hawk flew off, tired of the harassment.
Green-Wood Cemetery, the best place for bird drama.

A juvenile black crowned night heron sits on a wire cage holding rocks. Plants and water are behind the bird.

A juvenile black crowned night heron sits on a metal bulkhead edge with it's back to the camera. It's left wing is stretched out.

A juvenile black crowned night heron sits on the edge of a brown metal bulkhead, peering between out of focus crab apple branches.

This group of Black Crowned Night Herons has been showing up along the canal all summer, so happy to see them! I counted 6 tucked in along the 3rd st. turning basin, Gary saw 7 earlier. Their rookery must be nearby - hope they stick around!
#BCNH #brooklynbirds #gowanus

Looking for some fun on the water before summer truly ends? This Sunday’s gorgeous weather is the perfect excuse to get out in a canoe for our free walk-up paddling at 19th St!
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🕗 September 21 @ 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
📍 Gowanus Dredgers Bunker – 2 19th St., Brooklyn, NY

Hahaha I have so many bird photos of tack sharp… branches 🤪

Looking good, duck friend.

Spent the morning birding, thinking about capturing this sparkle two years ago - birds caught in the tribute in lights at the 9/11 memorial. Volunteers from @nycbirdalliance.org keep an eye on the concentration of birds, and radio to get the lights paused when there are too many caught in the beams

Go see this film!! It’s so wonderfully done and a great glimpse into a quickly changing neighborhood.

Favorite way yet to watch fireworks. From a canoe with friends and a flock of geese.

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Puffy storybook clouds this afternoon.

Pride Paddle with @gowanusdredgers.bsky.social is always a magical evening. Even if I did somehow lose my polarizer mid-paddle. Ooops!

Yup! They were hanging out by the CSO tank construction site. Spotted later over by GCC :-)

Is it weird to say one of my favorite views in the city is from a bridge that shakes with traffic under the BQE?

😭 nature is nature but wow that’s sad to see!

Goslings in the rain. Geese pick the strangest places to nest.

#goslings #birds #urbanwildlife

Solid!!

Hiya grump ya hermit thrush.

Spotted many warblers and got no pictures but enjoyed the hour or so I had to wander around anyway.

I have a lot of bad photos of birds from today, but also this delightful capture of a squirrel who looked like they were trying out for Cirque du Soleil. I missed it's fun hang-upsidedown-by-the-feet-and-snack move but I like the counter balance of this one :-P

#squirrel #Green-WoodCemetery

This was a family of 9 over the weekend, these 3 are the last left (Snapping turtles likely got the rest) Another mallard came over and was harassing the family, mom went to go take care of business, leaving these cute little fuzzballs to chase after her. 😍 #birds #greenwoodcemetary #brooklynbirding

The Least is really hanging out! So kind of it to chill near nice places to see it 😍

May 7th 2024. One of my favorite days birding of last year. Ran into @citybirder.bsky.social and a termite hatch out. Temps had been rising, migration was in full swing. We were so surrounded, a bird landed on Michael. It was a good day. Tracking temps to try to catch it again. 🤞

I guess grackles blink their awesome yellow eyes when they scream at each other because every photo I have of this one in action looks possessed. 🤣

Love a good grackle catching the light.

I wish for the calm joy of a sun drunk cat stretching out to soak in the last rays of the morning.

Fern may look tough but really she’s yawning and about to flop over to warm her belly floof.

It’s funny to look through photos I discarded as not what I was going for with the distance of time. New appreciation and also makes my file hoarder tendencies worse. 😳

Flamingos are weird.

I’m seeing posts about the #BlueskyArtShow - Today's theme is #Reflections so here’s one of my favorites. The ever changing #gowanus at sunset. Taking this photo made me a little late to a dentist appointment but I regret nothing.