 Enormous snapping turtles lurk in Brooklyn lakes but emerge this time of year to lay eggs. Oddly, NY state is about to allow trapping, hooking and clubbing them to death. Keep reading Monster quest: finding the giant snapping turtle of Prospect Park–before NY legalizes trapping them  Green herons annoyed off their nest by Googa Mooga, a celebration of hipster food, loud music and the selling out of public park land. Keep reading Googa Mooga drives off nesting green herons  Red-eared slider hatchlings, nesting snapping turtles and sunning logs abound in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park. Keep reading Prospect Park overfloweth with turtles  The town of Oyster Bay wants to shut down Bobby Horvath, the wildlife rehabilitator you call when you’ve got a coyote, owl, hawk, or pelican problem in NYC. Keep reading NYC’s top wildlife rehabber may be shut down by overreaching suburban zoning code  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  I wonder what Det. Lenny Briscoe would think of this case: A loved one dies vomitting blood. The family accuses a vague political opponent of a specific kind of poisoning. And then refuses an autopsy. Ka-chung (gavel sound). Keep reading Show dog owner refuses necropsy, but accuses Peta of poisoning Samoyed at Westminster  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  A snapping turtle a couple feet across may live in the lullwater of Prospect Park, Brooklyn. Keep reading A garbage can lid sized snapping turtle in Prospect Park?  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 |
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