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.”

Ivy

A wall of ivy that’s rolled down like a rug ready for storage on a retaining wall of a BQE overpass. Such evergreen thickets are often used by congregations of house sparrows for the night. A host of sparrows is the formal collective noun, but I like congregations because a grouping of sparrows will make an almighty noise.

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