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.”

Tsankawi Shelter

Part of Bandelier National Monument in New Mexico, the Tsankawi Historic Sites surround and top this mesa:Several caves, which 800 years ago were back rooms for the ancestral Pueblo people who lived here, dot the mesa flanks:Inside this one was this extraordinary petroglyph:And this bird nest:Still sheltering, after all these years.

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  1. […] Tsankawi, our guide pointed out the distant Datura, flowering with large, gaudy, trumpet-shaped flowers. […]

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