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.”

Chickadee

A Black-capped Chickadee took a break from the feeder to look behind clumps of lichen on tombstones.

Several clumps, on different stones.

The bird was finding something, but what? Looks like a seed sans husk above, but in the first image, it looks like it could be an arthropod …

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