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.”

RBN

A conifer is a good place to find Red-breasted Nuthatches now.
This fall’s big migratory wave of Red-breasted has long since passed through, and now White-breasted are more noticeable, but if you look and listen hard enough at the evergreen clumps, you may be rewarded with these little pointy birds.
This was a merged together thicket of eastern red cedar and
Chinese arborvitae. The bird was taking the arborvitae seeds into the dark shelter of the eastern red cedar.

One response to “RBN”

  1. The perfect decoration for an evergreen! Thanks for the views.

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