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.”

Raptor Wednesday

In a London plane tree across the street, the American Kestrel male stashes prey. The nesting kestrels used this same spot two years ago, too.
These last two pictures are from the same day, but different caches. Both, obviously, bird. Note that the kestrels will eat their prey’s feet, swallowing with the toes pointed outwards, for obvious reasons…

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  1. The Cache | Backyard and Beyond

    […] perch, was felled in a storm in November of 2018. The Ks also used to cached their bird prey in a knot in this tree. After this bird stored this acorn inside, with what seemed to be some care, another Red-bellied […]

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