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Steamboats Are Ruining Everything

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Category: trees

Early spring, 2025

A woodpecker with a red chin and red crown and a raccoon stripe across its one visible eye is clamped onto a tree, which it has riddled so far with two bright holes

A small bird with a white belly and a slate gray crown and back is perched vertically but upside-down, its bill swiveled to 270 degrees

A mid-size bird with a black head, a gray back, and an orange breast is hunched over as it tugs a reluctant purplish annelid out of the soil

A strangely flat-faced bird with a gray, Squiggy hairdo and a white chest is perched at a slant, its beak open as it chirps

A small round gray bird looks up and to the side as the Calatrava-Oculus-like fiery orange crest on its head slowly closes

A warbler with a brown back, a white chin, a streaked chest, and pale pink legs stands on a gray rock

A brown flycatcher is perched in profile on a budding maple

A hawk with a brown back and rich, streaked breast looks away momentarily from the woodpecker that she is eating

A hawk with navy blue wings and an orange-and-white-barred chest leans over the smaller bird that he's eating, a sad pink claw of which stretches out to the side

A small bird with wide white spectacles, a bluish head, a greenish back, and yellowish flanks stands in profile on a branch

A golden-brown-and-white-streaked bird, holding a half-moon shape, is perched on top of a spray of slippery elm samaras

A warbler with worm-colored legs, a brown back, a slightly speckled chin, and a streaked yellowish belly stands on a rock

A pair of ducks are paddling across a greenish pool; the female, on the left, is a brown-and-white brindle, and the male, on the right, has darker tailfeathers, a blue head, and a wide vertical stripe in front of his eye

Through a matrix of branches over water, a brown-and-beige fishing bird with bright orange beak and legs frowns with Samuel Beckett's frown

Posted on 1 June 2025Author Caleb CrainCategories birds, earthworms, photography, Prospect Park, trees

Bright winter

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Prospect Park, 12 January and 17 & 18 February 2024

Posted on 18 February 2024Author Caleb CrainCategories birds, photography, Prospect Park, snow, trees

Arrival

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Prospect Park, Brooklyn, 29–30 March 2023

Posted on 31 March 202331 March 2023Author Caleb CrainCategories birds, photography, Prospect Park, trees

Snow day

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Vale of Cashmere, Prospect Park, 7 January 2022

Posted on 7 January 2022Author Caleb CrainCategories birds, photography, Prospect Park, trees, wild fruits

“Walks” in the Paris Review

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The 238th issue of the Paris Review arrived in the mail yesterday, and “Walks,” a new short story of mine, appears in it. Please check it out!

Posted on 8 December 2021Author Caleb CrainCategories birds, dogs, items new in print, short stories, trees, walking

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