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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  • Raptor Wednesday

  • Turtle Tuesday

  • On The Rocks

  • Caracaras

    The cover of this book grabbed me like a raptor’s talons. This is Georg(e) Forster’s watercolor of a Striated Caracara, a species confined to the Falklands, made during Cook’s second voyage (1772-1775) in search of the southern continent. There are nine other species of caracaras, birds found almost exclusively in South America. There are also…

  • A Mystery

  • More Budding, More Blooming

    Reading: a great explanation of bee-washing and its dangers: “multiple negative consequences, including misinformation, misallocation of resources, increasing threats and steering public understanding and environmental policy away from evidence-based decision-making.” The bibliography adds more citations to my collection of resources about the problem of the honeybee.

  • Spring Beauties

  • Raptor Wednesday

  • Turtle Tuesday

  • Flickering