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.”

Great Blue

I realized after the fact and in some surprise that I’d flushed this heron from underneath a nearby pine. And that the bird wanted to get back under there.

Which is what the bird succeeded in doing.

mthew

One response to “Great Blue”

  1. Paul Lamb

    In an office park near my home is suburbia there is an old sycamore with a dozen heron nests in it. The birds return every spring to raise their broods. Gotten to be something of a tourist destination (viewed from a distance).

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