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.”

East Pond in Winter

Gray birch, a.k.a. white birch, Betula populifolia.
A closer look at that birch bark.
Big John’s Pond.
The Raunt.
Towering common reed, or phragmites.
American crow overhead.

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