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.”

Bits and Bobs

Less air pollution, more lichens.
Smokey-eyed Boulder Lichen (Porpidia albocaerulescens, I think, in Dutchess Co. Not unknown in NYC, although I haven’t come across it.
Powderhorn lichen (Cladonia). Several species of this in NYC, but you really have to search for it.
A Peltigera lichen, looking like seaweed at low-tide. With one or two mosses?
More of everything up north, actually. Here’s a fungus without algae or cyanobacteria. Maybe a Wrinkled Crust (Phlebia radiata) perhaps?
Christmas Fern (Polystichum acrostichoides)
A Brocade Moss (Callicladium imponens)?
Another moss.
A wasp?

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mthew

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