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.”

Butter Butt, Butter Bill?

Yellow-rumped Warblers.
European Starling. This is the top of a gated window at a neighboring industrial building, formerly a sweatshop and currently a warehouse (but closed for viruses). The babies inside the nest in there can be heard calling for food when the parents are foraging.

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One response to “Butter Butt, Butter Bill?”

  1. Chuck McAlexander

    European Starlings are beautiful birds, too. Their behavior is what is objectionable. I have seen a mob of 5 evict a pair of Red-bellied Woodpeckers from their nest. Nature is not a cartoon!

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