Six Months After Hurricane Sandy

Oakland Pond, Bayside, Queens, New York City:
this shattered tree has green sprouts. Nature re-news itself.

On a less happy note,
the pond's swans and most of the other aquatic birds are gone.
I suspect the Parks Department removed them.
Perhaps because they were non-native species?
Perhaps the birds contributed to the pond's algae problems?

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