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Monthly Archives: July 2009
Bumblebee
Sunday, July 26th, 2009
In the Sixth and B community garden in the East Village. In general bumblebees are so laid-back that you can get within inches of them without ruffling their cool. But they are capable of stinging.
Emily the Raven
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
I passed by the Marble Cemetery on East Second Street this morning and saw what I thought was a huge crow (the cemetery has its own flock). A neighbor there informed me that it was a raven with a broken wing, brought to this urban sanctuary from Utah. Her name is Emily. She can’t fly more than a few feet off the ground and is sometimes harassed by a local hawk. But she has survived here for about 4 months. Emily has friends who bring her boiled chicken and Chinese food, but I also saw her scrounging for bugs in the grass.
I came back in the afternoon with my DMC-FZ5 to get this shot, my pocket camera a DMC-FS5 was not up to the task.
Update:
I just came across a funny story about feeding the raven.
Unwelcome Handful of Meat
Update, August 5: I’ve gone back several times trying to capture more shots of Emily. I now know why she is not more famous. Most of the time she is up in her tree at the west end of the cemetery, well hidden from view.
A poor photo but at least it gives you a comparison of her size to the crow on the left.
Con Ed from Third Ave
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
The old Con Ed tower peeking between the new construction on Third Avenue.
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