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.”

Downy WP

Our smallest woodpecker is the least concerned with us. I walked underneath this one, which was a couple feet above me, before noticing it. They’ll range into the streets and backyards of the city more commonly than the Red-bellied, Yellow-bellied, Hairy, and Northern Flicker, the other species found around here.The red feathers mark a male.

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