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.”

4 responses to “Passengers”

  1. Your original “I found…” caught my attention in my blog reader. In this day and age, who knows what can be brought back from the dead. “They’re” or “There are”?

    Oh, hey, look at this beetle display I put up in 1999 @ CMNH. I got so much flak for the exhibit not being “more scientific”. I love that it’s gone viral: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/3ztrjz/someone_at_this_museum_has_a_sense_of_humor/

  2. There are still passengers along with us for the ride, but alas for the Passengers, they’re not amongst us.

    That was your work? Bravo! I just saw that recently somewhere…

  3. Alas, the last passenger pigeon was named Martha like me.

  4. […] precisely. I’ve seen ’em stuffed at the American Museum of Natural History. That is […]

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