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.”

House-adjacent Sparrows

When our apartment building was surrounded by a “sidewalk shed,” or protective awning, for the duration of some work on the facade, House Sparrows started nesting in the space between the small I-beam supporting the corrugated roofing.
This is another construction site on 5th Avenue. The nests here, presumably carryovers from last year, were suddenly jumping on February 1st.

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