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.”

Mill Creek

This stream runs besides the Staten Island Railway station at Pleasant Plains.

You can stand on the platform and look down into the shallow waters.

As it happened, the train that day was running in two parts, so at another station, this plant-hopper flittered in to land on the platform.

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