Backyard and Beyond

Starting out from Brooklyn, an amateur naturalist explores our world.

As John Burroughs said, “The place to observe nature is where you are.”

Starfish

The Icelandic beaches were remarkably bare of anything other than rocks, pebbles, and sand. We found, in order of frequency, some mussel, scallop, snail, and limpet shells. But our best sightings were a number of starfish that had been washed ashore.

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