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This work by Matthew Wills is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
Backyard and Beyond
Starting out from Brooklyn, an amateur naturalist explores our world. "The place to observe nature is where you are."—John Burroughs
This work by Matthew Wills is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
Backyard and Beyond 
Anyone interested in nature likes to see the wealth of beauty which surrounds us all. Only the truly fascinated are willing to deal with the excreta and gory remains to get a deeper understanding of what nature really is and does. It starts innocently enough. You go to the park to look at the pretty birds. Eventually, you come to the conclusion that birding at a sewage treatment plant is just fine and picking apart owl pellets to find the bones and hair of the meal to determine what species was eaten is a real treat. Regurgitated yew fruit is just a gooey part of the process. Bug eggs are pretty tame stuff to the real naturalist.