Starting out from Brooklyn, an amateur naturalist explores our world.
As John Burroughs said, “The place to observe nature is where you are.”
House Finch male in an exotic Sweetgum.
Purple Finch female in the White Ash samaras. She has to bill-worry the seed out of the wing.
Flatbread and Starling.
And House Sparrows.
The obscure red belly of a Red-bellied Woodpecker.
Yellow-rumped Warblers with prey.
It’s the season of periodic flocks of Robins.
A hollow in this beech is almost always filled with water.
Many birders are waking to the idea of winter birding. The norm used to be putting the binoculars away after fall migration and leaving them until spring migration. Now, they can enjoy the bounty they have missed. And it is wonderful!
I’ve always thought that if Tiffany had designed a bird, it would have been the Blue Jay.
He would have enjoyed the wing patches on a Eurasian Jay (Garrulus glandarius), too.
Backyard and Beyond 
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