Molting Falcon

When Nigel (last foto)–my parrot–molts, he’s raggedy, would win no beauty contests.  Behold a fully fledged Falcon from June 2012 and

from yesterday, a molting one, an Allied boat in the process of becoming a Kirby one while moving a barge between sugar fields down south and a processing plant in Yonkers.  The deal is not new, but the manifestation of the change is ongoing.

ATC 1800 is a dry bulk coastal barge built in 1966.  Will it molt as well?

All fotos yesterday by Will Van Dorp.