Tim Graves
@ibirdsometimes.bsky.social
Bronx birder and nature photographer. Interested in baseball, native plant gardening, and housing and transportation policy. I was saying boo-urns.
Last time there was a Connecticut Warbler in Pelham Bay Park I forgot to put a memory card in my camera. I had good luck with a cooperative bird and a functioning camera this time #bronx 🪶
This Say’s Phoebe I found a my kids’ cross county meet was a new New York state bird for me, but not a lifer, so I got a donut instead of pie.
There was a Northern Pintail in Van Cortlandt Park last week 🪶
more people need to care less about some stuff and care more about other stuff
This Dunlin was hanging out with some Sanderlings at Stone Harbor, NJ and it was inspired by them to run up and down the beach. 🪶
A Caspian Tern eyeing up a meal at Stone Harbor Point, NJ 🪶
The nor’easter brought a Black-legged Kittiwake to City Island in the Bronx 🪶
Today is my birthday and my wife got me a framed specimen of a Luna Moth that was captured in Quebec in 1938.
The first two busses were too full to get on. Maybe one of these four will have space for me.
Congratulations to my wife and nine-year-old son for successfully trapping this litter of kittens in the neighborhood. We’ll be fostering them until they get fixed and adopted.
I saw Mississippi Kite on Saturday. My first lifer in Van Cortlandt Park! 🪶🥧
The Jerome Park Reservoir has been drained for maintenance and now the Bronx has a nice summer shorebird spot. I just ticked my county Baird’s Sandpiper.
I was watching a nature show with my nine-year-old last night and there was a part about Hoatzins. He called it a “Temu emu”. 😂
I took the camera out in the yard yesterday to see what insects can be found in my garden that’s comprised mainly of native plants. A kindly @inaturalist.bsky.social reviewer has confirmed that this is a type of hover fly called an Eastern Calligrapher (Toxomerus geminatus).
Happy National Moth Week to those who celebrate! Here’s an Orange-headed Callima Moth and an Elegant Grass-Veneer I saw in my backyard last night.
The two most photogenic nests I found in Van Cortlandt Park this spring: Baltimore Oriole and Wood Thrush #bronx
I logged my 1,000th observation on @inaturalist.bsky.social yesterday. It’s a Northern Paper Wasp on an aster in my front garden.
Thanks to @rachelholliday.bsky.social for the tip (no pun intended) that BoE is giving out Knicks-themed stickers today.
@positivesubway.bsky.social was right, Furcules is a bit of a rascal.
We’re fostering five kittens that were abandoned on White Plains Road in the Bronx. Say hi to Catphrodite and her siblings . . .
I found a Hackberry Petiole Gall on my hackberry tree! This means a tiny insect called a psyllid has injected enzymes into the tree through its saliva causing this growth to occur that the psyllid lays its eggs in. There are a few different species of gall psyllids that use the leaves of this tree.
