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IF I CAN BE CALLED A BIRD-WATCHER, my spark was a pair of burrowing owls, painted on the narrow storefront gate of a shuttered real estate business on 145th Street in Harlem that brokers single-room occupancy housing for two hundred dollars a week. I spotted them after ice-skating with one of my kids at the rink in the shadow of towering smokestacks at Riverbank State Park. The park is a concession to the community for the massive wastewater sewage plant hidden beneath it. It was midway through the Trump years: January, but not cold like Januaries when I was little, not cold enough to see your breath. It wasn’t snowing, and it wasn’t going to snow. The owls watched me quizzically with their heads cocked, their long skinny legs perched on the colored bands of a psychedelic rainbow that seemed to lead off that gray street into another, more magical realm.
Jan 19, 2021
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Tiny owl found hiding in the Rockefeller Christmas tree isn t going home. Here s why.
He s a northern saw-whet owl, one of the smallest owls in the U.S.
Millions of birds flying in different formations like swooping through! said birdwatcher Michelle Polli.
On Tuesday night, word had gotten around and dozens of bird watchers took to the CVS parking lot near the Northgate Shopping Center to try and catch a glimpse of the free-wheeling flock. I think I m becoming a bird lover. Birds are pretty cool! said animal enthusiast Allison Jacobs.
Ilana DeBare of the Golden Gate Audubon Society explained the practical reasons behind why the birds are involved in these murmurations. They can come from 5, 10, 20 miles away, and they form these big gatherings because they are safer in numbers, DeBare says. If you are a lone starling and there is a predator like a falcon coming at you, you are much safer in a group of a thousand or ten thousand other birds.
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Most of us would agree that we canât wait for disastrous 2020 to come to an end. The coronavirus reared its ugly head early in the year, and then came Hurricanes Laura and Delta. However, we canât let Christmas come and go and forget the blessings we have also enjoyed.
The stateâs first COVID-19 case was reported on March 9, and the deadly coronavirus pandemic disease by Tuesday had claimed over 6,800 lives in Louisiana. And the nation is currently in one of its most deadly coronavirus surges.
Hurricane Laura hit Southwest Louisiana on Aug. 27, and Hurricane Delta came six weeks later. Our homes and businesses have been devastated, and the return to normalcy could be years away.