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

Fort Tilden is all about the Ospreys lately, and I think these are still mostly locals, not yet migrants.

This is a non-standard grip. Usually prey is oriented head first, as in second picture above.

There are still seats at my Raptors of Green-Wood presentation, in which I bring together all the images and stories of a decade’s worth of raptor-eyeballing in the cemetery.

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