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.”

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  • Woodcock

    Woodcock
  • On the Icefront

    From the left: male Wood Duck, female Hooded Merganser, male Red-breasted Merganser, male Hooded Merganser, & Canada Goose.

    On the Icefront
  • Ring-billed

    Ring-billed
  • Spring Bonus Post

    Eastern Phoebes have arrived.

    Spring Bonus Post
  • Spring

    “The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going around the sun, and neither the dictators nor the bureaucrats, deeply as they disapprove of the process, are able to prevent it.” George Orwell, “Some Thoughts…

    Spring
  • And Another Gull

    Another big, white-winged gull on Pier 4 at Brooklyn Army Terminal. (This pier is used as a parking lot, so get there early before all the parking spaces are filled up and the gulls head out for their day’s business.) Glaucous Gull/Larus hyperboreus. A visitor from the far north. The Iceland Gull was also there.

  • Raptor Wednesday

    Raptor Wednesday
  • Ravens

    Ravens
  • Waste Not

    Another goose down. And this one shows the most severest signs of being scavenged.

    Waste Not