Central Brooklyn
The P.S. 217 Weather Club with Snowball the Hamster. (Photo: Mara Dubovici)OK, it may not feel like we’re going to have six more weeks of winter, but a highly reputable source on Newkirk Avenue has just declared it so. Snowball, the P.S. 217 [http://ps217brooklyn.org]
groundhog
Many thanks to neighbor Eli Rosenblum-Stephens for sending us this great photo of an adorable woodchuck he spotted in his backyard on E. 10th Street! Share photos with us at editor@ditmasparkcorner.com, in the Ditmas Park Corner Flickr group [http://www.flickr.com/groups/dpcorner], or tag them #ditmaspark
City Birder
The City Birder [http://citybirder.blogspot.com/2012/08/fridays-foto_31.html] spotted a napping groundhog recently in nearby Green-Wood Cemetery [http://www.green-wood.com/]: > This large squirrel is native to North America and Green-Wood Cemetery is one of only a few places where remnant populations can still be