We saw a hummingbird, osprey, and red-tailed hawks (one was a light orange). The lake is only a puddle now so no ducks or other birds. There are lots of dragonflies.
Greenbrook Dragonflies
United States
Greenbrook Plants
I’m trying to identify grasses. I can usually ID the main families.
Greenbrook Moss and Lichen
From the little nature sanctuary on the Palisades by the Hudson River in in New Jersey. It felt cool amongst all the greens.
Marine Park Fiddler
Sand Fiddler Crab (Uca pugilator) at Marine Park. Many little ones are eaten by Yellow-crowned Night Herons.
Handedness in crabs (from Copilot):
“In most fiddler crab species, males have one greatly enlarged claw (the major claw) and one smaller claw (the minor claw), and the side on which the major claw grows is called the crab’s “handedness.”
The myth that losing a major claw causes the crab to “switch” to the other side is false — the crab regenerates a new major claw on the same side, and the small claw stays small
In many species, males are evenly split between right- and left-handed (about 50:50) www.fiddlercrab.info.
The exception is the genus Gelasimus, where males are almost entirely right-handed (often >95%) www.fiddlercrab.info.”
Marine Park Heron
I enjoyed watching this Yellow-crowned Night Heron tossing small crabs into its beak like popcorn.
Marine Park Osprey
Osprey breed here every year. We saw one young one in this nest.
Marine Park Mix
Walking along the path by the inlet in Marine Park in June in Brooklyn NY.
Marine Park Birds
in June we went to Marine Park : NYC Parks in Brooklyn, New York. The marsh there is always rewarding.
