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

I was eating a sandwich standing up by the kitchen window when suddenly a young Bald Eagle flew into my view followed by a crow. They were closer than the building across the street, right over 6th Avenue and at my 4th floor eye-level! Hurrying to clean my hand and grab my camera, I got a few through-the-dirty-window shots as the birds moved away.

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