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.”

RBNH

Two Sundays ago, somebody in a car saw our cameras and binoculars and asked us if we’d see a Red-breasted Nuthatch. I had, in early February, but not since.
This past Saturday, I saw one. In the same general area as the one two months before…
The bird was on a pine. It was only later when looking at my pictures on my computer that I noticed three cicada exuviae still stuck on the tree. Wonder if some of the sap has helped keep these attached? This was the underside of a branch, so that may have provided some protection against the blast of winter for six months or more.

mthew

One response to “RBNH”

  1. Charles McAlexander

    Great shots of a beautiful bird!

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