All photos have been taken in Hyde Park (Chicago) during the past few weeks.
Time to get out and see all these flowering plants before the goldenrods and asters take over! Nature walk is Saturday evening at 6:30. We meet at the east door of the Museum of Science and Industry.
Beaver spotted swimming off music bridge (bridge on north side of bobolink meadow -look away from the boat harbor)
rattlesnake master
moon rise on our last moon watch
photo darkened so you can easily see the rabbit in the moon.
Lots of green darner dragonflies were at the blue moon watch
silver-spotted skipper
question mark butterfly on butterfly bush
giant robber fly
Can you find the green caterpillar in this photo?
tall bellflower
fire pink (oops, this is royal catchfly!, thanks aaron!)
We”ll sort out all the yellow look-alikes on the walk! Is this a black-eyed susan, a coneflower, a cup plant, a sunflower or something else?
another yellow flower to sort out
a primrose family member
swamp milkweed
jewelweed or spotted touch-me-not
A new local! A deer, who has been spotted with 2 fawns
cormorants enjoying the turtle habitat
black-capped chickadee
juvenile spotted sandpipers
monarch on butterfly bush
crabapple with cedar apple rust
elderberry berries