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.”

Downy

Note the hole. The branches of this Kentucky Yellowwood were well-mined.

It took about four minutes of pecking and pounding to get inside the twig in this particular case. Now, these branches are live wood, but it looks like something has hollowed them out for growing/pupating. But what?

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