Pete Brush

Ring-necked Duck at Prospect Park Lake #birds #birding 🪶 #photography

It was probably just a gull, since there is no such thing as a seagull except as as idiom

A not-wild duck acting like a wild duck 🦆 - probably a Mallard's distant cousin - in Brooklyn Bridge Park #birds #birding 🪶 #photography

Song Sparrow, Brooklyn Bridge Park #birds #birding 🪶 #photography

Greater Scaup, not minding the icy waters at Brooklyn Bridge Park #birds #birding 🪶 #photography

Hooded Merganser and Gadwall, Brooklyn Bridge Park #birds #birding 🪶 #photography

The cold weather has brought lots of winter ducks down to greater NYC in search of open water in which to feed. Here's a Northern Pintail and a Greater Scaup off of Brooklyn Bridge Park. #birds #birding 🪶

The cut of his pie

Also present in Brooklyn Bridge Park this morning along with other ducks -- many in breeding plumage -- was a good number of Northern Shovelers #birds #birding 🪶

Common Goldeneye offshore at Dumbo just north of Brooklyn Bridge Park Brooklyn Bridge Park #birds #birding 🪶

American Kestrel, Brooklyn Bridge Park #birds #birding 🪶

Green-winged Teal at the Brooklyn Bridge Park Marina #birds #birding 🪶 And a triple-duck shot with Teal, Gadwall and Mallard

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker doing work, Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier 3 #birds #birding 🪶

At the spiral pool in Brooklyn Bridge Park this morning this Red-tailed Hawk was taking a spa, bathing in the chilly water then flapping dry #birds #birding 🪶

Ever seen a hawk go ice skating? This morning I did as this Cooper's Hawk at Brooklyn Bridge Park was navigating a frozen pond to get a drink #birds #birding 🪶

Brown Pelican, Sarasota #birds #birding 🪶

Osprey, Sarasota #birds #birding 🪶

Audubon says Limpkin breeding behavior not well understood. Just watched them copulating pondside after short-lived (I assume) mating calls more nuanced than the usual shrieks. Sorry no pic. Sarasota #birds #birding 🪶

Pied-billed Grebe, Sarasota, #birds #birding 🪶

Limpkin with Blue-winged Teals, Sarasota, #birds #birding 🪶

Red-Bellied Woodpecker prying prey from branch, #birds #birding 🪶

Sandhill Crane, Sarasota #birds #birding 🪶

Pretty Mottled Ducks, Sarasota #birds #birding 🪶

Swamp Sparow, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 3 #birds #birding 🪶

Peregrine Falcon atop St. Paul's in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn #birds #birding 🪶

Lingering Northern Waterthrush flipping leaves and enjoying the morning sun, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 1 #birds #birding 🪶

Ovenbird, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 2 #birds #birding 🪶

Field Sparrow, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 2 #birds #birding 🪶

Swamp Sparrow hanging on a Lily pad, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 1 #birds #birding 🪶

Uncommon visitor to Brooklyn: a Varied Thrush in Prospect Park #birds #birding 🪶