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We took a stroll past the old Green Church lot to see what, if anything was happening with it the other day. Sure enough, despite the promises of ‘luxury’ condos, a new church, and eventually a new public school — nothing appears to be happening at the site of the once beautiful Green Church.

And we are oddly content with this because it is allowing the land to be reclaimed by nature, or rather, man’s bastard version of what nature is thanks to various invasive species.

In any event, it’s rather nice to see an acre of land in Brooklyn that is free of buildings go green.

Our choice of what to do with the land is get some cows, have them graze the land and charge $5 a head to enter a viewing booth and watch the peaceful nature of a cow eating some greens growing from the Earth.

Let’s make the Brooklyn Cow Pasture happen!

Predatory Bird Moves Onto Green Church Lot

December 17, 2009 Uncategorized

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Yesterday afternoon we swung past the site of the old Bay Ridge Green Church (pictured below) on 4th Avenue and Ovington in Brooklyn to see if there was any new construction activity happening and found that it was still mainly a flattened site.

The above photo from 2008 and the below photo taken yesterday (12/16/2009).

However, as we walked down Ovington Avenue we saw a VERY LARGE bird swoop in and land on one of the trees inside of the old Green Church lot. We think that it was probably either a red tailed hawk or a peregrine falcon!!!

(Three peregrine falcons were born about two miles away on top of the Verrazano Bridge this past May.)

Here’s a shot of the bird as it checked us out.

While we most certainly are NOT bird experts to know if it was a falcon, a hawk or something else, we did notice two locations of what appeared to be possible nests.

If you’re wanting to take a look for the bird yourself, he was spotted in the tree above second ‘R’ of the horrendous yellow watermark and the possible nests are in the tree to the right (closer to the houses & 3rd Avenue).

For those of you who are curious about the bird and the nest or are a bird enthusiast, here are some more shots of the bird and the possible nest. If you recognize what type of bird it is feel free to drop a comment.

Click on a thumbnail to view it larger.