Near Cunningham Park, Queens
My first time seeing a skunk in Queens. I've seen one in a cemetery in Brooklyn and in upstate NY, but never in Queens.
One of the only few bird species singing beautiful during the last hour of daylight
A large tree. I don't think I've come across an American beech tree in Alley Pond Park that isn't infected with BLD. It's gotten much worse it seems in the last few years : (
I think Chinney swift or perhaps a warbler
At a vernal pool. Rusty cap, dark line through the eye. Reddish brown in the wings helps to distinguish from Chipping sparrow. Gray face.
The owl was calling for a while and then went inside the cavity in a large Chestnut oak
Screechy call from seconds 10-13
Sounding a bit like horses. The one with the pink legs is probably a Herring gull