Out Walking the Dog

Out Walking the Dog Out Walking the Dog is an urban nature website/blog that focuses on NYC wildlife. Stay safe, everyone! Nature is all around us, even in the city.

New York Times profile: http://nyti.ms/aRa6Af

This spring, we're walking NYC during the pandemic. NYC is full of wildlife: red-tailed hawks, peregrine falcons, raccoons, skunks, kestrels, coyotes, a multitude of songbirds as well as rats, squirrels and pigeons. I watch them, and write about them. The NY Times calls Out Walking the Dog, "part ecological journal, part personal meditation." (New York Times Profile: "A Dog Walked Into a Blog" http://nyti.ms/aRa6Af)

A bobcat in the Bronx!
12/17/2020

A bobcat in the Bronx!

"My guess is that there's probably some food sources that were available there."

Any questions?
12/06/2020

Any questions?

NYC Coyote pups! They look great, bright-eyed, curious and HUNGRY. Great photos by Terence Zahner on iNaturalist. (Van ...
06/14/2020

NYC Coyote pups!
They look great, bright-eyed, curious and HUNGRY. Great photos by Terence Zahner on iNaturalist. (Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, where coyotes have been resident for years.)

Coyote from Van Cortlandt Park, New York, NY, US on May 22, 2020 at 09:33 AM by terence zahner

More on the baby raccoons in Riverside Park. Many seem to have mange (see photo below) and one little guy has no tail. A...
06/02/2020

More on the baby raccoons in Riverside Park. Many seem to have mange (see photo below) and one little guy has no tail. Also during the pandemic, more people than ever (cooped-up and craving connection with nature) are feeding them. Feels good, I know, but it's usually a prescription for trouble for humans and raccoons, alike. Raccoon babies are learning to depend on us rather than to forage in the parks. And hey: Zoonotic diseases, anyone?

Life in the urban raccoon world is complex and so is the intersection between urban humans and the wildlife that lives among them. These baby raccoons are suffering from mange and one in the litte…

Oh dear. Mange! Some of the raccoons are balder than others, but they all seem to be afflicted, mother and kits alike. (...
05/09/2020

Oh dear. Mange! Some of the raccoons are balder than others, but they all seem to be afflicted, mother and kits alike. (I'll be putting up a blog post with more photos & video soon.)

Sun worshippers in Central park yesterday. Cormorant and turtles.
05/08/2020

Sun worshippers in Central park yesterday. Cormorant and turtles.

05/04/2020
Blossoms, bandits, birds ... a virtual pandemic walk in northern Central Park.
05/04/2020

Blossoms, bandits, birds ... a virtual pandemic walk in northern Central Park.

Walking the NYC pandemic Over the past two weeks, I have twice strolled across Central Park to the Conservatory Gardens to see the blossoms. I’d like to go again today, but with temperatures …

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