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Red Admiral butterfly

New York City in May has been populated with lots of Red Admiral butterflies.  The Red Admiral in the photograph above was perched on a crabapple in Greenwich Village.  The surge of Red Admirals was written about by Gothamist ( Red Admiral Butterflies Are Out And About! ), WNYC ( Butterflies Flutter Across the Region in Abundance ), the New York Times ( Insect Discoveries, Delightful and Disturbing ), and Baristanet (New Jersey) ( Butterflies Abound ).

Manhole covers

Image: Manhole cover, Valladolid, Spain We have a new collection on Flickr: Manhole covers .  The photoset contains manhole covers from London, and Madrid and Valladolid, Spain.  We will add some from NYC soon.  Check out The Booooooom Tumblr for photographs of beautiful Japanese manhole covers .

May blooms in the Sasaki Garden

There are lots of flowers in the garden, and sepals, too. You can look at what else is blooming around the country and the world at May Dreams Gardens' Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day - May 2012 .

Marsh Botanic Gardens

Our short photo-essay of the Marsh Botanic Gardens in New Haven has been published by Human Flower Project.  Read "A Haven in New Haven" here .

Bird Watch: Thirsty pigeons

Pigeons (and all of their relatives in the family Columbidae ) have "unique drinking behavior" defined as "suck[ing] up water, using their beaks like straws. p.s. local ecologist is on YouTube here .

Oasis in Greenwich Village

New plants in the Sasaki Garden at Washington Square Village. We disagree with Atticus Brigham's description of this privately-owned, publicly-accessible green space as well as several public open spaces of the two Village superblocks as a "rural fantasy of bucolic oases shrouded by token greenery." Mr. Brigham is the deputy editor of Washington Square News.