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Steamboats Are Ruining Everything

A writer in Brooklyn

The new fall outfits

A grayish bird with a white chin, a yellow beak, and barred wings perches in a cluster of dried seedlings

A long-billed brown bird with a mottled breast stands at a jaunty angle deep in phragmites

A bird with a gray head, a white supercilium, a black eyestripe, and a green back stretches itself toward a morsel

A tiny chartreuse-backed bird with a white eyering peers between bare branches

A tiny bird with a black face mask, a navy blue coat, and a white dicky looks boldly upward

A tiny bird with a green head, a mustard back, and blue-and-black wings launches itself upward

A bird with a black head, blackening wings, and orange patches on its flanks and the sides of its tail

A forest green turtle has climbed up onto a log still spotted all over with lime green algae

A small green-backed bird with a white breast and a diffuse, faint stripe of red along its flanks looks upward

A light gray bird with a faint stripe across its eye and two white wing bands lifts one its yellow feet

A tiny black-and-white-striped bird sits on the rough bark of a log

A bird with a yellow head, striped black, a white breast, and black-and-white wings is in profile

A squirrel, suspended upside-down from a honey locust tree, grasps in his front paws a flat black seed pod that he's nibbling on

A sharp-billed bird with a yellow breast, a gray back, green wings, and the trace of a rufous crown perches on ragweed

A tiny bird with a black supercilium and a yellow crest grips a branch on the diagonal, the dried-out tendrils of an ivy curlicuing above him

Prospect Park, Brooklyn, 15 September to 7 October 2026

Posted on 8 October 2026Author Caleb CrainCategories birds, photography, Prospect Park, squirrels, turtles

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