Migrating monarchs and other fall wildlife in Hyde Park (Chicago)

Migrating monarchs in a roost (or bivouac) on 63rd Street near the Lake

monarchs in silver maple

monarch on michaelmas daisy at 47th and Cornell

monarch on Mexican sunflower in lovely garden at 65th and Cornell

two skipper butterflies mating in garden by the golf driving range

Snowberry clearwing hummingbird moth on zinnia. Other common names include sphinx moth or hawk moth.  In the UK they are known as bee-hawk moths.  Photo taken at garden around 65th and Cornell

Clearwing hummingbird moth on butterfly bush in garden around 59th and Cornell

An actual hummingbird which I first thought was another hummingbird moth!

crayfish on 63rd Street beach

An itchy great blue heron near the golf driving range

a juvenile black-crowned night heron in the Osaka Garden

Lots of white-crowned sparrows are migrating through Wooded Island

brown creeper at 47th and Cornell

flycatcher from Bobolink Meadow

coyote near 63rd Street not happy to see me

It’s a girl!

It’s a boy! A photo from around 5 years ago