A red-tailed hawk and a great horned owl, beautiful rehab birds at the Sand Ridge Nature Center 🪶

White-throated sparrows (one soggy) in The Magic Clump at Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary 🪶

Palm warbler watusi 🪶

Madame redstart 🪶

One of the hawks that was intermittently suppressing songbird activity at Montrose Point yesterday, to the consternation of the warbler-hunters 🪶

Goldenrod soldier beetle, covered in goldenrod pollen, appropriately enough. 🪲

Nashville warbler 🪶

A different immature red-shouldered hawk (I think), this one at Big Marsh Park. It flew pretty low, right over my head. 🪶

Handsome buck

I encountered this hawk several times at Sand Ridge this morning, but I'm still not 100% sure what kind it is. My best guess is that it's an immature red-shouldered hawk. 🪶

The hummingbirds were duking it out at the Sand Ridge Nature Preserve 🪶

A pied-billed grebe (and its reflection) at Northerly Island 🪶

An American kestrel, looking toward the rising sun on Northerly Island 🪶

Double-crested cormorant, looking serene 🪶

When the green heron is too close for an 800mm lens, you end up with a headshot. 🪶

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The song sparrow was quietly cheeping, will not be offering the full-throated spring aria again until next year. 🪶

Canada geese, wondering what's so great about herons? Why don't you take our picture? 🪶

I tried to sneak up on this hummingbird but was quickly spotted 🪶

A belted kingfisher at Skokie Lagoons 🪶

Great blue heron, making a splash 🪶

The starlings were all murmurating, except for this slacker 🪶

A tiny least sandpiper, the smallest of all the shorebirds 🪶

Great egrets. They really are great. 🪶

Interesting visitor to my window -- a katydid. (Note to self: I really should clean my window.)

Green stairs

Black-and-white warbler, doing an imitation of a nuthatch 🪶

Nashville warbler, stealing from a spider 🪶

Blackpoll warbler taking a leap 🪶

Juvenile chestnut-sided warbler 🪶

Periodic lunar check-in. Half-moon a week before equinox. 🌗

A squirrel valiantly defending its nut from a would-be rival. 🐿️

I was photographing this least flycatcher when it was suddenly dive-bombed -- repeatedly -- by a hummingbird. The hummingbird eventually succeeded in driving the flycatcher away. The motive for the attack is unknown at this time. 🪶

Canada warbler, photographed in the golden hour this morning at Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary 🪶🍁

Bluejay departure. It's the time of year when bluejays form noisy groups, and this one was probably off to find its buddies. 🪶

Immature myrtle warbler 🪶

Black-throated green warbler visiting Chicago 🪶

A palm warbler, one of the warblers that likes to stay on the down low. 🪶

A merlin intently scanning the dunes for prey 🪶

Green heron lift-off 🪶

Immature white-throated sparrow 🪶

Robber fly 🪰

Please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you're used to. 🪶

This egret caught a good-sized fish. Right after I took the picture, a heron swooped in, attempting to poach the prize, but the egret was too fast and flew off with its catch. 🪶

At the Fox River bird pool: assorted water birds, starring a great blue heron. 🪶

a northern waterthrush, a warbler that continuously bobs its rear end while foraging, making it a dancing bird by my calculations 🪶

Today I spotted a pair of solitary sandpipers -- seems like an oxymoron 🪶

exotic green-breasted wood duck 🪶

The bald eagles have evidently spotted something interesting/tasty at McHenry Dam 🪶

Turaco, a beautiful African bird that I was able to see at the Brookfield Zoo. 🪶