Green herons annoyed off their nest by Googa Mooga, a celebration of hipster food, loud music and the selling out of public park land.
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 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  One of the last places it was safe for families to feed ducks falls for the frenzy to eliminate Canada geese. Keep reading Atlanta’s Duck Pond cracking down on Geese  MT’s only wildlife sanctuary may close because it’s not meeting federal regulations, but it won’t say which ones. Keep reading Closing MT’s only wildlife rehab center, home to bear, lynx, Ted Turner’s magpie?  Roost of hundreds or thousands of Double-crested Cormorants, Phalacrocorax auritus, on Cedar Pond, near Route 6′s Orleans rotary. One of the most striking wildlife sites on Cape Cod is one locals hate: a spectacular cormorant roost on electric wires over Cedar Pond near Orleans. You pass the roost just south of the Orleans rotary on Route 6, Cape Cod’s main highway, and it turns your head. Cormorants are big, loud and chatty. And the roost just keeps on going as you drive. Wayne Petersen, who manages the important bird areas for Mass Audubon, says that neighbors had tried to get rid of it, but apparently gave up. “You can imagine the chloroform count in that pond,” he says. The problem isn’t the sight or sound, but the smell of the guano. Back in 1999, residents got a permit to scare the migratory birds off by firing pyrotechnics, the Cape Cod Times says. They were still missing in 2004, according to Bird Watchers General Store, which says the stink from the pond was “so vile that even a black lab wouldn’t roll in it.” If you think you’re seeing more cormorants now than you did growing up, you’re right. This Cape Cod roost is one of many that have popped up along the coast–with similar results. People wiped out the birds in the 1800s. Fishermen still view them as competition. And some people just find their stooped neck sunning kinda creepy. But Mass Audubon says the birds, absent as recently Keep reading Enormous cormorant roost comes back on Cape Cod  Dog people are the only people out on the street and worry about dogs separated from their family. Birders are routing for petrels and other exotics get blown off course to pad out their life lists. Keep reading Birders v Dog People in Hurricane Sandy  A Barnacle goose that somehow migrated from Greenland onto the wrong continent is beloved by Brooklyn birders, but shunned by Canada geese. Keep reading Goose from Greenland has many Brooklyn fans, but Canada geese not among them  A rare Barnacle goose from Greeland is trying to blend in with a flock of plain Canada geese in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park. As if he wasn’t on the wrong side of the Atlantic, much smaller and much fancier. Keep reading Goose from Greenland hangs out in Brooklyn |
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