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.”

Marine Park

The US Army Corps of Engineers spent millions on restoration at Marine Park Nature Center, but without maintenance, the usual bane, it’s largely gone back to phragmites and mugwort. Still, there are some scraps of habitat.

This was actually most unusual: the first iNaturalist observations of Myzinum maculatum.

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