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 Week Day IV

From two long avenue blocks away… hence the muddiness of these images. A Peregrine has been perching of a morning atop Mike’s Spike, not an unusual winter habit for this species. The first image, of a Peregrine in flight, looks like another bird, a juvenile this time; class of ’22.

The fifth of five straight mornings.

A juvenile perched closer to the Raptor Observatory (our apartment)…but unfortunately during a rain so the pictures leave much to be desired.

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