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.”

Raptor Wednesday

An adult Red-tailed Hawk atop the oversized bust of Horace Greeley at the family plot in Green-Wood Cemetery.
This would be in the shadow, if the sun ever rises from the north, of the Red-tail nest that gave us the single nestling/fledgling we’ve been following all spring and summer. This may be one of the parents.

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