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I'm competing this Saturday in my gym's annual Halloween fundraiser, to benefit Brooklyn Community Housing & Services, which provides support & safe, clean housing for people who are unhoused or at risk. My team's costume theme is Baywatch! Please donate if you can!
Chestnut-sided warbler, yellow warbler, bunny, and ruby-throated hummingbird at Prospect Park, Brooklyn, August and September 2025. 🪶
For more: https://calebcrain.substack.com/p/steps-and-perches
Black skimmer, lesser yellowlegs, osprey, and red-necked phalarope at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, 24 August 2025. 🪶
For more: https://calebcrain.substack.com/p/steps-and-perches
I wrote something about dissent and the motive for speaking out.
https://calebcrain.substack.com/p/the-motive-for-speaking-out
Indigo bunting, Canada warbler, bay-breasted warbler, and fork-tailed flycatcher, in Brooklyn and Manhattan. 🪶 #birding
A yellow-bellied sapsucker, an American robin, a Louisiana waterthrush, and a least bittern in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, in the early spring of this year. 🪶
For more: https://calebcrain.substack.com/p/early-spring-2025
Christmas Bird Count, 2024, in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn: a yellow-bellied sapsucker, a merlin (eating an American robin), a Carolina wren, and a black-capped chickadee. 🪶
New story! "Unit One" is in issue 249 (fall 2024) of the Paris Review.
Since I'm told the internet likes process, here's a photo of an early page of an early draft, next to the printed version and an eerie illustration by Cathleen Clarke!
https://www.theparisreview.org/fiction/8329/unit-one-caleb-crain
The building, a brick row house, was only a few blocks from the subway, and Amy got there first. A rose had been left on the stoop, laid vertically on the slanting top of one of the stubby walls that descended on either side of the steps. Against the soft old auburn sandstone, the velvet petals almo...
A yellow-bellied flycatcher, a black-throated blue warbler, a bay-breasted warbler, and a magnolia warbler in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, on 27 August 2024. 🪶
More here: https://calebcrain.substack.com/p/profiles-aa5
#birding #birds #birdphotography #nikond500 #sigma150600 #yellowbelliedflycatcher #blackthroatedbluewarbler #baybreastedwarbler #magnoliawarbler
Two red-eyed vireos battling over a grub, a chestnut-sided warbler, a Canada warbler, and a yellow-billed cuckoo in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, 19–21 August 2024 🪶#birding #birdphotography #birds #redeyedvireo #chestnutsidedwarbler #canadawarbler #yellowbilledcuckoo
For more from this batch: https://calebcrain.substack.com/p/the-return
