Sunday, July 19, 2009

Flora and Fauna of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Continuing with the theme of Posts About Nature, Stephen and I spent the afternoon showing his parents around the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

While we expected to see many gorgeous flowers:


Coreopsis tinctoria


The BBG has an amazing collection of water lilies. We were looking out for dragonflies, of course!

..and the occasional fauna:


...we did not expect to see a red-tailed hawk dining on a smaller bird on top of a pergola in the Shakespeare Garden:





The hawk seems relatively non-plussed by the attention and "posed" for us for almost 5 minute before flying off to eat his prey in peace.

2 comments:

--K. said...

COOL! The shot of the little orange-y dragonfly on the pink lily is fantastic, he's so cute!

Michaela said...

I thought you'd like that photo! I like the floating turtle, too...I could totally switch places with that turtle about now.