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Bleeding Hearts

Bleeding Heart is also known as Venus's car, Dutchman's trousers, or lyre flower. It is a perennial native to eastern Asia from Siberia south to Japan. The common name comes from the heart-shaped flowers which have a longer inner petal that extends below the 'heart'. Flowering in late spring they form a bushy, mound of pale green fern-like foliage.

Callery Pear

The Callery "Bradford" Pear is one of the most common street trees in New York City. It was planted because of its beautiful Spring flowers, tolerance to a variety of soil conditions and resistance to pollution and fireblight.

Wild Geranium

Native to North America, this perennial has showy, pink, five-petaled flowers, occurring at the top of a leafy, 1 to 3 ft. stem. Another common name for this wildflower is "Cranesbill", because of the seed capsule which resembles a crane's bill. They are common in moist woods and meadows.

Star-of-Bethlehem

This wild flower of the lily family is native to southern Europe and southern Africa. It has established itself in North America.

Moss Covered Wall

This low was is along the Lullwater in Prospect Park, Brooklyn.

Winter Aconite

These tiny buttercups are one of the earliest wildflowers to emerge, often peeking through the snow.

Common Hackberry Bark

Like the whorls on a topographic map, the ridges of this hackberry bark glisten with early Spring rain.

Snowdrops in Prospect Park

One of the first bulbs to flower in and around NYC. The Snowdrop is a sign that Spring is not far off.

Ring-billed Gulls along Columbia St. Pier

These "parking lot" gulls breed north and west of New York City, but are common winter visitors along the coast.

Cherry Petals & Duckweed

An abstract pattern of spring colors formed by floating cherry petals and duckweed on a pond in Green-Wood Cemetery.

Great Horned Owl

The Great Horned Owl is one of the most widespread and common owls in North America. They are the fiercest and most powerful of the common owls. This individual was seen in Brooklyn, NY.

Red-tailed Hawk and Sunset

As I watched the sunset from my roof in Brooklyn, a Red-tailed Hawk perched on an adjacent building to do the same.

Yellow-legs at Dawn

Sleeping shorebirds stir at first light in the East Pond of Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge.

Into the Midwood

This wood chip trail leads north, into the Midwood, Brooklyn's last remaining natural forest.

Pied-billed Grebe on Prospect Lake

The tiny Pied-billed Grebe is listed as a threatened species in New York State. This bird was photographed on Prospect Lake, in Brooklyn's Prospect Park.

Ginkgo leaves in Brooklyn

Golden ginkgo leaves carpet the footpath into the Peninsula woods of Brooklyn's Prospect Park.

Red-tailed Hawk in Cemetery

"Junior" is one of the resident Red-tailed Hawks of Brooklyn's historic Green-Wood Cemetery. As of 2008, he has fathered 6 offspring.

Winterberries

These Winterberry shrubs in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, are an important source of food for overwintering wildlife.

Black-crowned Night-Heron in Coney Island

Rotting wooden hulls from several old barges litter Coney Island Creek. These "islands" have become convenient daytime roosts for Black-crowned Night-Herons.

Prothonotary Warbler in Ravine

The golden-yellow Prothonotary Warbler is a rare sighting in New York City during spring migration. I spotted this bird resting in a shrub in Prospect Park's Ravine.

Northern Goshawk in the Ravine

This juvenile goshawk found his way into Brooklyn's Prospect Park during the winter of 2007-2008.

Wary Eastern Cottontail

Historic Green-Wood Cemetery is home to a variety of wildlife. This rabbit is keeping a sharp eye out for the local Red-tailed Hawks.

Locust Borer and Goldenrod

This brightly colored beetle was found feeding on goldenrod pollen at the old Ridgewood Reservoir along the Brooklyn-Queens border.