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Morning Eye Candy: A Game of Hawk and Mouse

Posted in Around the Garden, Photography, Wildlife on January 6 2013, by Patricia Gonzalez

It was a lovely Tuesday morning with cloudless blue skies. I had about an hour and a half before my shift at the NYBG began, so I decided to try my luck spotting a young Red-tailed Hawk that I’d been photographing for weeks. I believe that this is one of the three hawks born earlier this year at the Fordham University nest. His mom is Rose, who I’ve been photographing since 2008. After walking the forest for about an hour, I exited near the Wetlands Trail, where I soon saw my friend. He tried his darnedest to take on a squirrel inside the twisted snag, which resulted in a hilarious game of hawk and mouse with the squirrel living to eat peanuts another day.

I also had an opportunity to shoot a little video of the pair in action, which you can see here.

Red-tailed Hawk

Photo by Patricia Gonzalez

Morning Eye Candy: Rising to the Occasion

Posted in Around the Garden, Photography on January 1 2013, by Matt Newman

Seeing the snowdrops pull themselves up by their bootstraps over the last month was a strange sight, if only because they’re not scheduled to arrive until the first moments of spring. But while their seasonal confusion was a little disconcerting, to see these coy troopers toughing out the worsening cold still proved a pleasant inspiration.

We wish you each an unequivocally successful year in 2013, and may you find your own bootstraps in the face of whatever 2012 had to throw at you.

Winter snowdrops

Photo by Amy Weiss