Every year I make a calendar for friends and family with some of my best bird photos of the year. I’m thinking about putting this Anna’s Hummingbird on the cover. 🪶

Mamdani will be the first mayor not from Manhattan or Brooklyn.

My son’s fourth grade class had a mock mayoral election yesterday. My son said most voted for Sliwa, he convinced his best friend to vote for Mamdani, and no one voted for Cuomo.

I convinced by 88-year-old conservative neighbor to vote yes on Props 2 through 5. His mind was opened last year when I got him to read @mnolangray.bsky.social ‘s book which he “didn’t agree with, but found interesting”. I’ll take it.

Post a bird announcing that Dick Cheney is dead 🪶

Cuomo illegally parking his *white ford bronco* in the bike lane is beyond parody. the guy clearly has a humiliation fetish at this point or something

Watching the mayoral debate with my six-year-old. He likes “the one with the beard” because “he’s not yelling at me”.

Happy butterbutt season to those who celebrate 🪶

I like how this Cardinal uses a leaf like a placemat while messily eating the pokeweed berries in my yard. 🪶

It’s Brown Thrasher season in my backyard in the Bronx🪶

I shot this buck with a Canon in Van Cortlandt Park.

I found a feather that I suspect is from a Great Horned Owl, a pellet full of bones, and whitewash all over the ground in my go-to owl spot. Did I find the owl? Absolutely not. 🪶

Red Knot? More like not red. 🪶

I saw a Gull-billed Tern in Stone Harbor, New Jersey 🪶

Osprey breakfast 🪶

I didn’t think I got any images of the Red-necked Phalarope I saw last week at Brigantine, but it pays to just take photos of a whole flock of shorebirds and try to find them later. 🪶

Shout out to Betsyyyy on iNat for confirming my observation of bluestem goldenrod from two years ago.

I saw some cool birds and shot a 46 while playing mini golf in Cape May 🪶

Real ones know

I saw three Roseate Spoonbills in New Jersey and you’ll never guess the name of the nearest cross street.🪶

There’s a common hackberry planted as a street tree in Cobble Hill.

I think this cicada killer is trying to drag this cicada into the drain in our driveway instead of digging its own burrow. Probably not a smart move considering they’re too big to fit through the holes in the drain cover.

Local NIMBYs are not happy about the new apartment building beginning construction in the neighborhood.

Think I just found my favorite Eastern Screech-owl photo ever. By Christina Evans, in the Macaulay Library: macaulaylibrary.org/asset/621156... 🪶

Has anyone written a good faith argument on why Mamdani would be a terrible mayor? I’m highly skeptical of his most prominent policies, but not to the point where I think he must be stopped at all costs. I just don’t get why the billionaires are freaking out so much.

The thing is I don’t even like Mamdani that much, but watching every slimeball in the world line up behind Cuomo has negatively polarized me into a supporter. His heart’s in the right place, he seems nice, and I like that he usually wears a suit.

I attracted some cool moths to my back yard with a black light. IDs are in the alt text.

I found a wood turtle in the woods.

I found an Eastern Kingbird nest in the middle of a beaver pond. 🪶

If I were @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social I would refer to my main opponent as the status Cuomo.

If nothing else, this is the best concise Case Against Cuomo I’ve read so far.

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? That oil spills are uncommon. There were over 10,000 (about 29 per day) reported oil spills in New York State last year.

I have no idea if the adult Blue Jay is male or female, but it’s Father’s Day so let’s all pretend it’s a dad.

I’m really trying to boost my follower count and engagement, so here’s a photo of Carrion Beetles on some coyote scat.

Gotta make a bunch of cute little animated segments for the whale facts.

Cygnets and the Bear Mountain Bridge🪶

Sometimes you need sundrops (Oenothera fruticosa) on a rainy day.

Bluebird enforcement 🪶

I usually have a lot of difficulty photographing birds in flight, but sometimes Purple Martins fly very close and it gets much easier 🪶

I saw a box turtle in the Bronx for the first time the other day.

Just as I was ending my walk at Shawangunk Grasslands NWR, this male Common Yellowthroat popped up and put on a little show for the camera 🪶

I made a trip to Shawangunk Grasslands NWR and got nice looks at the singing Grasshopper Sparrows 🪶

I saw my lifer Fork-tailed Flycatcher today 🪶

I saw a White-winged Dove in the Bronx 🪶

I was planning on ranking Myrie and Lander 1-2, but hadn’t thought much about Blake. I’ll give him a closer look.

My nails have never looked better since I got this Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge emory board. 🪶

I posted something on iNaturalist that I thought was a slime mold. A reviewer thinks it’s a fungus, so iNat defaulted to the category which includes both slime molds and fungus: Life

All throughout high school my brother and I listened to the weirdest, noisiest music we could get our hands on like John Zorn, Sun Ra, Boredoms, and Melt Banana. One day I was listening to Loser by Beck and my dad walks in and says “that’s the weirdest song I’ve ever heard”.