All photos were taken in Hyde Park (Chicago) during the last few weeks. Come join us for a nature walk and moon watch tomorrow evening. See post before this one for details.
Sleeping perched on one leg, a black-crowned night heron
Black-crowned night heron sitting in blooming box elder
male northern shoveler with american coot
female and male shoveler
male and female bufflehead in the rain
banded piping plover, endangered bird at 63rd Street Beach
caspian terns at 63rd Street Beach
great blue heron
great blue heron
greater yellowlegs, or if not, a lesser yellowlegs
gadwall
pied-billed grebe with goose head for size
Canada goose and pied-billed grebe
two male wood ducks
killdeer
pectoral sandpiper
hooded merganser with female bufflehead
hooded merganser with extreme feather- do to impress the females. To see his courtship moves while he is courting a female mallard go to this link: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/xx44zh4c8mbwoo9/AADXTfN0jIZUyseSOKzqw9npa?dl=0
male and female blue-winged teal
horned grebe
goose egg
belted kingfisher
belted kingfisher
Osaka Japanese Garden
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