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Four Owls and an Osprey

April 25, 2017

After two Staten Island weekend outings in a row, we worried that our necks might turn red—mine actually was pinkish for the lack of sunblock—and instead steered confidently north to the Bronx. Landing in Pelham Bay on a sunny Easter Sunday was nothing short of paschal. The immense parking lot was bustling and the usual driving chaos prevailed. Hundreds of people were setting camp up on the grass for communal BBQ's and hundreds more lay on the sand like sardines, begging for UV to do its duty. It was a windy...

The Airplanes of my Dreams

April 18, 2017

This will be a self-indulging blog post, insomuch as one post can be more so than another, given the rather egocentric nature of blogging to begin with. This disclaimer out of the way, it is no secret that I love flying, and I adore planes. I will take pictures of planes before I even take pictures of birds. But recently on Staten Island, they competed wing to wing. The contrail shot below is my favorite. Marie was scouting for foragees in the distance and as I glanced at her, she pointed theatrically to...

Feathered Arrows

April 8, 2017

After weeks on end of what the French refer to as "métro-boulot-dodo", the commute-work-sleep routine of large-city dwellers, I reach a tipping point where escape is no longer simply needed, it is quintessential, a survival skill. So we pick up a bubble car a couple of blocks away and head out of Brooklyn like dogs on a scent, pulling hard on the city leash and aiming for nowhere near here, and possibly beyond. Now in case you are not familiar with bubbles, they tend to burst, so the leash pull cannot be too...

New York City Safari

August 1, 2016

With a trip to South Africa finally approaching, my year-long, city-must, day-to-day rat-race-controlling concentration is breaking up and I catch myself thinking about road trips and the many marvelous animals we see there. The fact that in North America we get two weeks' vacation time out of the fifty-two our planet grants us while chasing its tail around the sun, still both puzzles and depresses me. But that's another story. I am here to remind myself, by showing you photographic proof, that wildlife is all around,...

Philly

May 30, 2016

A few months ago, while a moody winter hiccuped erratically across the Eastern Seaboard, I blew the proverbial fuse and blasted off our Brooklyn island and unto uncharted territory at the wheel of a Zipcar. Poor Marie was tied up to her computer by aggressively lively deadlines, and I just had to see the world. Any world. Fast. Willingly lured by the artistically carved, delicately etched and forever lacquered and polished memories of my dear tropics, I was weak and went south. Well, southeast, as it turned out, since I...

Feather Count

April 22, 2016

A couple of months ago, walking home from the subway with a hook towards Whole Foods, we came upon a gathering of people who stood on sidewalks, pointing up animatedly and aiming phones. At first I had thought they were looking at a plane but the object of their attention turned out to be a pair of large red-tailed hawks. The birds appeared to be collecting little sticks from the top branches of a tree to build their nest, which they puzzlingly had elected to place on the street-facing fire escape of a three-story...

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