Red-eared slider hatchlings, nesting snapping turtles and sunning logs abound in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park.
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 Non-denominational waterfowl feeding. I went out last week hoping to see the Orthodox Jews throwing their leavened bread at the Prospect Park geese before Passover. The Prospect Park Alliance publicly notified them not to try to foist off their chametz on the waterfowl feeding. That ticked off the community, who denied any such plans., to the New York Times and the Brooklyn Paper. So I headed over to the prime duck-feeding spot on the lake in Prospect Park on both the eve and morning of Passover. Let’s be honest, I was hoping for a spectacle: maybe 10 guys in 5 kinds of fur hats, surrounded by their collective 87 children and 10 wives in perfect wigs, all hurling bags of bread at grateful Canada geese. The aggressive swan family that lives there might charge them. A Park Slope mom might passive-aggressively read the sign about not feeding the waterfowl outloud to her kids. The pushy Peking ducks that follow bird feeders away from the lake might try to follow these generous Jews all the way home to Borough Park. Instead I got absolutely no visible Hasidim at the spot where people and ducks have come to agree is the best spot for feeding, the southwest corner of the lake. (I also looked around the shore and by the boathouse.) That’s not to say I didn’t see plenty of visibly Orthodox Jews feeding ducks earlier this spring. Sometimes there were even two men in formal garb. But mostly, just Keep reading Trip to see Orthodox Jews in Pre-Passover duck-feeding frenzy a big disappointment  Beagles will climb a tree if you smear it with peanut butter. Keep reading How to play the peanut butter tree game with your hounds  30 or so beagles partied for Bastille Day in Prospect Park. We blew a shofar to set off the baying and activate their inner beagle. Keep reading Beagles howl to shofar on Bastille Day in Prospect Park  Dozens of beagles are meeting up Prospect Park on July 14 for a singing contest and Bastille Day coffee and bagels. Beagles love all hounds, so if you think your mutt might be part beagle, you’re officially invited. Free biscuits till 9 am. Keep reading Beagles to sing in Prospect Park on Bastille Day  At least 10 species of beetle are easily mistaken for the hated Asian longhorn beetle. Keep reading What’s black and white and not an Asian longhorn beetle?  Great egrets hunt Japanese koi at Green-Wood Cemetery, where a South American monk parrot may have gotten sick from a raccoon. Keep reading Natives and non-natives mix it up at Green-Wood Cemetery  Europeans have embraced outdoor classes for little kids to reconnect them to the natural world. West coast parents have swarmed outdoor pre-K where toddlers stomp through rain, snow and mud. Now a teacher is bringing the Forest School philosophy to Brooklyn’s big park. What will the kids find in the urban woods? Keep reading Can outdoor education work in a New York City park?  Monk parrots, longtime residents of Greenwood Cemetery, may be moving north into Park Slope, where they’ve been feeding on 3rd Street. Keep reading Parrots moving to Park Slope?  Brooklyn got its first two great horned owl babies in a century this spring. Maybe they stayed away because they were so scared of the songbirds. Keep reading Adolescent owl trying to look tough after getting spooked by a robin–how embarassing |
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