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Ashbridges Bay: June 2021

I see Ashbridge’s Bay often in winter.

Quite different in June:

Gull feather

MYSTERY BIRD

I will identify it at the end of the post.

Other birds:

Red-winged Blackbird (male)
House Sparrow (female)
Warbling Vireo
juvenile House Sparrow
Song Sparrow
juvenile House Sparrow
Baltimore Oriole (male)
House Sparrows
Common Grackle
Common Grackle
Mallard (male)
European Starling
Hybrid “bib” duck

Some botany:

Russian-olive (Elaeagnus angustifolia)
Bladder Campion (Silene vulgaris)
Shining Willow (Salix lucida)
Cottonwood seeds
Larch (Larix decidua)
Choke Cherry (Prunus virginiana)
Serviceberry (Amelanchier)
Reed Canary Grass (Phalaris arundinacea)
Bridal-wreath (Spiraea x vanhoutiei)
White Mulberry (Morus alba)
Bladder Campion (Silene vulgaris)
Goat’s-beard (Tragopogon)

MYSTERY BIRD

This striped brownish bird is a female House Finch.

House Finch (female)

NATURE POETRY

I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by;
And the wheel’s kick and the wind’s song and the white sail’s shaking,
And a grey mist on the sea’s face, and a grey dawn breaking. – John Masefield (1878 – 1967)

Miles Hearn

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