manhattan
grrlscientist | August 22, 2008
Adult plumage Ring-billed Gull, Larus delawarensis, stands on a lamp on Roosevelt Island, overlooking the East River. Manhattan Island is in the background.
Image: GrrlScientist, 21 August 2008 [larger view].
I went on a little day trip to Roosevelt Island to look at birds and to learn a little about a company known as Verdant Power. Roosevelt Island (formerly Welfare Island, and before that, Blackwell's Island) is a small island that is roughly two miles long located in the middle of the East River, a tidal estuary that flows between Manhattan Island and the Borough of Queens.
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grrlscientist | January 10, 2008tags: Manhattan skyline, photography, NYCLife, NYC
A view of eastern Manhattan from a condo on the thirtieth floor on the Upper West Side (ISO, no zoom, no flash). While I was here, I watched a peregrine falcon, Falco peregrinus, repeatedly bomb-dive Pale Male, the famous red-tailed hawk, Buteo jamaicensis, as he soared past the buildings over the southern end of Central Park. Unfortunately, my camera was unable to capture this drama as it unfolded.
Image: GrrlScientist 2008 [wallpaper size].
This would have been a much better picture if I could magically make the radiator and window seam…