Washington DC wildlife: Purple finch this morning in Rock Creek Park by the maintenance yard. 🪶

Washington DC wildlife: Eastern towhee this morning in Rock Creek Park by the maintenance yard. 🪶

Spotted around town today: Cybertruck disguised as a Ford. 🥸

Female common yellowthroat this morning in Bryant Park in NYC. 🪶

This morning in Bryant Park in NYC this gray catbird was one of many birds systematically eating all the berries off the new holiday winterberry plantings. 🪶 🌲

Gray catbird this afternoon in Herald Square Park, like the table says. 🪶

Swamp sparrow this afternoon in Bryant Park in NYC. 🪶

Common yellowthroat this afternoon in Bryant Park in NYC. 🪶

According to eBird, crowded and commercial Bryant Park in midtown Manhattan has seen 90 different bird species so far this year. Here’s a common yellowthroat this afternoon. 🪶

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Washington DC wildlife: Black-crowned night heron this morning by the Washington Marina. 🪶

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Washington DC wildlife: Immature Cooper’s hawk obligingly perched directly above the Rock Creek Park Nature Center this morning. 🪶

Washington DC wildlife: Immature yellow-bellied sapsucker this morning in Rock Creek Park by the Nature Center. 🪶

Washington DC wildlife: Eastern towhee this morning in Rock Creek Park by the maintenance yard. 🪶

Just learned that over our objections and ahead of the arrival of trick or treaters we had a National Gourd deployment to our house.

One of the eagles flew off, and later I saw it flying over the Potomac River by the Tidal Basin carrying . . . an opossum? 🪶 🦅

These two bald eagles have frequently hung out here but this is the first time I’ve seen them in several months. 🪶 🦅

Washington DC wildlife: Bald eagle pair this morning on Little Island by the Theodore Roosevelt Bridge, thematically complemented by an American flag waving in the background. 🪶 🦅 🇺🇸

Washington DC wildlife: Ruby-crowned kinglet this afternoon on Rodman Street. 🪶

Washington DC wildlife: Juvenile red-headed woodpecker this morning in Rock Creek Park by the maintenance yard. 🪶

Northern flicker this morning in Rock Creek Park by the maintenance yard. 🪶

Washington DC wildlife: Sharp-shinned hawk this morning in Rock Creek Park by the maintenance yard. 🪶

Turkey vulture and northern mockingbird seeming to pause for a picture during an interaction this summer in Cambridge, Maryland. 🪶

Washington DC wildlife: Bicolored sallow moth this morning on Rodman Street. 🐞

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Washington DC wildlife: Palm warbler this afternoon in Rock Creek Park by the maintenance yard. 🪶

I’ve been seeing this wood duck duckling from my office window for a few weeks now, and a group of mallards has definitely accepted it and swim with it around the Wharf. Here shown with an adult female mallard. 🪶 🦆

Yellow-bellied sapsucker this morning in the Central Park native meadow in NYC. 🪶

Hermit thrush this morning in the Central Park native meadow in NYC. 🪶

Palm warbler this morning in the Central Park native meadow in NYC. 🪶

A roseate spoonbill preening over its reflection in shallow water. #birds

There were gray catbirds all over midtown Manhattan this afternoon. This one was by Madison Square Garden. 🪶

Ovenbird! This afternoon in the MMC Plaza on 45th Street, the second likely spot I checked out. 🪶

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Washington DC wildlife: Male wood duck in eclipse plumage this morning in the Constitution Gardens pond. 🪶 🦆

Washington DC wildlife: Juvenile laughing gull this evening at the Tidal Basin. 🪶

Washington DC wildlife: Great egret flying over the Constitution Gardens pond this morning. 🪶

Washington DC wildlife: This morning in the Constitution Gardens pond, a male wood duck with different colors and patterns everywhere you look. 🪶 🦆

Washington DC wildlife: Pied-billed grebe this morning in the Constitution Gardens pond. 🪶

Washington DC wildlife: First dark-eyed junco of the season, this morning on Rodman Street, returned from its breeding grounds in Canada. 🪶

Eastern bluebirds this morning in Huntley Meadows Park in Alexandria, Virginia. 🪶

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Turkey vulture this morning in Dyke Marsh Wildlife Preserve in Alexandria, Virginia. 🪶

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Washington DC wildlife: Monarch butterfly feeding on a summer lilac this afternoon at the Wharf. 🐞 🦋

Washington DC wildlife: Juvenile false map turtle this morning in Washington Channel by the Municipal Fish Market. 🐢

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