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.”

Kestrels!

Worm. The American Robins were very upset.

About 50 minutes later, she caught a dragonfly, a Swamp Darner (I think), our biggest regularly occurring species.

This is a daughter of the nest.

One of her two recently-seen brothers.

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