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.”

Infrastructure

A temporary side-walk shed, put up to protect pedestrians on the sidewalk from construction, is supporteded by narrow I-beams. Where they come close: a space ripe for any kind of weaver finch.

Right across the street from Green-Wood Cemetery, one of the ground-zeros of the introduction of the House Sparrow to North America.

A female with the messy bundle of one of their woven chamber nests. There was another nest at the top of this ventilator grill as well.

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