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

That seems to be an eel, which must have been carried in from the coast a few blocks away. Not bad for an afternoon’s sightings in Green-Wood. Earlier in the day, two American Kestrels were overhead of me on 4th Avenue and 12th Street in Manhattan. Here’s one of them:

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