David Taylor

listen, I didn't stop listening to Nirvana when they started selling the smiley face shirts at Urban Outfitters; I'm not gonna stop using em-dashes just because chatGPT uses them

Yeah, Boerum hill too. Dip was long enough of fully reboot router and reset my ACs. Back up to a nice, stable 122v now though.

Was idly clicking around the website of a new condo bldg that went up in my neighborhood and noticed list an in-building pottery studio -- "curated by BKLYN Clay" -- among the building's amenities bergenbrooklyn.com/amenities

Ship to shore cranes at the port of new jersey

ship to shore cranes with the sun setting behind them

The Nord Vanquish tanker being escorted by two tugboats into the sunset

The Statue of Liberty backlit be the sun behind her head

Incredible OHNY boat tour of the Port of NJ last night led by PANYNJ's Director of Ports, Beth Rooney plus an obligatory stop by some local statue. "48m consumers live within four hours of this port, while four hours from the Port of Long Beach doesn't even get you out of LA's traffic" 😂

Fledgling season 🪶

@agounardes.bsky.social given S4091 will likely result in bk constituents like me, who rely on our late night G trains, to see worse service and longer commutes, why support it? Is there any data to suggest that ending OPTO won’t cause an uptick in crew-availability dispatch delays?

Assume that has something to do with early voting ballots being just-in-time printed to order for your specific council / assembly / etc dist, whereas day-of sites use preprinted ballots to keep up with the rush and it is easier to have one common page and then one per-district page?

A geeen eyed tabby cat standing upright in a chair with front paws on the back of the chair and looking at the camera.

Requesting pick up.

I wanted to say mourning dove at first as well but tail looks pretty triangular rather than diamond?

Hm, think I somehow disconnected from the #birds feed so I might need to #addbirder again

common yellow throat warbler on a branch

black and white warbler running up the trunk of a tree

black throated blue warbler singing

black throated blue warbler on a log

A few warblers from WBF walk in Central Park last week 🪶

Incredible!

iirc you’ve mentioned rocking the z8 before right? Is that paired with the 600 f/6.3? or the f/4? Or something longer?

A chestnut sided chickadee on a branch

Chestnut sided chickadee perched on the fingertips of an open extended palm

Friendly chickadee says hi 🪶

Seeing a California towhee side by side with a golden crowned sparrow makes the fact the towhee is a (large) sparrow pretty apparent — or at least more so than with, say, the easter towhee 🪶

Black Phoebe perched on a post in the rain mid-call

Black Phoebe perched on a pipe in the rain

Black Phoebe in the rain 🪶

Orange crowned warbler in leaves

Orange crowned warbler in leaves

Townsend’s warbler on a branch

As a New Yorker it is always a treat when traveling to warmer places in winter to spot birds that we’d usually only get to see briefly as they pass through on migrations. These bright little warblers are so cheerful 🪶

Wren in the leaves and grass

Bewick’s Wren under a leaf looking at the camera

Bewick’s Wren is hunting for bugs 🪶

Anna’s hummingbird in flight facing directly towards the camera

“Whatta you lookin at?” 🪶

Anna’s hummingbird mid-flight visiting a flower

A hummingbird lands on a wet leaf

A hummingbird is in flight above flowers

A hummingbird is perched on a bench with raindrops falling in the foreground blur

Anna’s Hummingbirds in the morning rain 🪶

Pied-billed grebe in the sun

Common golden eyes and buffleheads

Harbor seal floating with its eyes closed in the sun

Pied-billed grebes, golden eyes and buffleheads and one very content looking a seal in Tomales bay 🪶

a chick-a-dee taking flight from a branch

Chick-a-dee has places to be 🪶

Osprey on an old wooden pier

Osprey watching to see what the ferry churned up as we got into Larkspur right at sunset. Had several grebes and a harbor seal following us as well by the time we reached the dock. 🪶

Happy Congestion Pricing Day to all who celebrate!

I’ve watched three b65’s gather at Smith and Fulton so that all three can start their trip _on the same light cycle_. I don’t understand why the drivers _intentionally_ platoon like this?

Some days the mirror is not your friend.

New #animaltooluse report by Jason Love et al. in @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social. A Northern Cardinal repeatedly picked up gravel, flew to a car mirror and struck the mirror with the stone.

(It's a Ford Escape SUV, not clear if that mattered to the bird) 🧪🪶

A tabby cat curled into a ball on and up against a pile of camera gear and binoculars looking less than comfortable.

Recent scritches have been insufficient, so given you seem to value this 600mm prime, I shall lie directly on it, my comfort be damned, until arrears are paid in full.

I think that is Borough Hall (the overpass over the 4/5 tracks), or if not it has the same sign.

Angry lil falcon fledge on my roof... with its even angrier (at me) mama 🪶

huh, I never realized the black was a layer on top of the yellow that they could shed! The only juveniles I've spent much time close to day after day are my local cardinals and their beaks seem to turn orange gradually from edges then inward fading from black to orange gradually.

Er, uh, starling even. 🤦