Visiting duck, beautiful fall

Here's a pretty good shot of the new visiting duck. It's all white, and quite large. I wonder if it's an escapee from one of the Long Island duck farms. Hmmm - are there still Long Island Duck farms? There were many of them when I was a kid, but I suspect many have been replaced by housing developments. This is my new camera, a replacement for the one I lost on vacation. It seems pretty good, and hopefully will last at least until next summer's big vacation.

Fantastic fall colors in the park right now - just a few trees, really standing out in contrast with the greenery.

Interesting fishing line caught in a tree. It comes straight up from the water, and is looped over a branch of a tree by a stick tied to its end. Sadly, it looks impossible to get from the shore. Hopefully none of the birds will strangle themselves on it before the Parks Dept. takes action.

Raccoons killed while escaping!!

Yet another beautiful fall day, this one with a little bit of crispness in the air. There was a family feeding the ducks and swans, a mere 20 feet from the sign saying that people should not feed the wildlife. It has always been true that we in the glorious People's Republic of Brooklyn are not good at listening to directions. Signaling to change lanes is virtually extinct in this borough, the sad history of the founder of Vox Pop (stealing electricity rather than buying, not bothering to pay inconvenient taxes,) and the local constitutional right to make a u-turn in the middle of the block, are but a few examples.

There's a new addition to the park! A white duck seems to have come to stay. We don't know what kind of duck it is, but Anne says she'll do the research and find out what species it is.

Anne, by the way, is running in the Brooklyn Do-Gooder contest. We're scrupulously voting for her every day and hope that everyone she knows does also. Her full name is Anne-Katrin Titze. The site is: http://www.dogoodrighthere.org/

Anyway, the park is beautiful, but there were two dead raccoons NOT in the Park. I wonder if this is a result of overcrowding or wanderlust, but there were 2 dead ones. One on Parkside Avenue, near Ocean,. The other was on the corner of Beverley and Stratford.