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

A pair of Peregrines flying together over Green-Wood recently.

Another day, over the same patch, there was fierce little boomerang chase that I first thought was two American Kestrels. But it was the Merlin above and this male Kestrel:

After he’d defended his territory.

And another Osprey sighting… .

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