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.”

Passenger

A Song Sparrow with what looks like a tick attached to the side of the eye. There are a few (at least) Ixodes genus bird ticks.

I wrote about the “flying zoo” here.

mthew

3 responses to “Passenger”

  1. Chuck McAlexander

    I thought sure the Augustus de Morgan quote would be here somewhere

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    1. mthew

      The negation of a disjunction is the conjunction of the negations?

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  2. Chuck McAlexander

    No. Little fleas have littler fleas that bite ’em and big fleas have bigger fleas etc……..

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