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#BirdOfTheDay Alt theme is #mouthful, any bird with a mouthful of food. Baltimore Oriole, Red-bellied Woodpecker, and American Robin, each with its own personal cicada, Chicago. Photos by Mikhail Mokeyev #birds #cicada

#birdbutt #chicago Humboldt Park

#chicago #goose

Long-eared Owl. Ink. #birdart #owl

Horse, Ink. #ink #animalart #horse

Since #BirdOfTheDay is #BirdButt, I guess I ought to repost this Common Yellowthroat flaunting his best side! Photo by the late Mikhail Mokeyev.

Come see my birds, animals, book-themed art, figures, live painting, abstraction, and assorted hybrids on canvas and paper: BOOTH 16, WEST LOOP CONTEMPORARY FINE ART EXPO, Oct 17-19, Stephen Bailey Auditorium, 1340 W. Washington, Chicago. Cf. pesmen.com (art) & westloopartexpos.com (details)

Fulton St Collective (re: my previous post) hosts terrific concerts several times a week. I do live painting there about once a month. This is from Wednesday night, a painting of the wonderful Matt Mallinger

🪶Seriously, darn those windows. Why don’t they pick on someone their own size? Rose-breasted grosbeak, his beautiful spotty side, on a Chicago sidewalk

🪶 Today would've been Mikhail Mokeyev's 51st birthday. I've been posting photos he took, mostly at Montrose in Chicago; a little tribute to a kind, talented human who's missed. After misidentifying a Magnolia as a Canada yesterday, I double-checked today's. This spectacular hot mess is a Downy.

🪶Black-throated Green Warbler. Pic by Mikhail Mokeyev.

#Warblur Magnolia, I'm thinking? #birds 🪶

🪶I posted a Canada Warbler way at the beginning of this series, in March. Here's the same guy. Pic M. Mokeyev

🪶 2. Northern Parula...head. Pic by M. Mokeyev.

🪶Two birds today: 1. Dark-eyed Junco, looking sharp (for an all-grey bird), albeit either entitled or affronted. Pic M. Mokeyev

🪶 Unlike the birds I've posted the last couple of days, this Palm Warbler is not immature and not discombobulated. Pic M. Mokeyev

🪶Another immature, beautifully spotty bird: Yellow-bellied Sapsucker. Photo by M. Mokeyev.

🪶Red-Winged Blackbirds are a menace, but I like this immature male. He's stunning if you appreciate spotty things (cf Gerard Manley Hopkins). Mikhail took two detailed photos of him. In this first one he looks lost and somewhat diapered 😂

🪶Another pic MM took of the same bird (I posted a picture of it earlier), looking fatter and cuter, more as if he has aspirations, and not exhibiting his tongue.

🪶 White-throated Sparrow. Bonus - tongue. Pic by M. Mokeyev.

🪶Chestnut-sided Warbler (one photo here, one in replies). Pics by Misha Mokeyev.

🪶Baltimore Oriole with its cicada. Pic by M. Mokeyev

🪶 weighs 6.1g, less than a quarter of an ounce, and finds this position perfectly normal (Golden-crowned Kinglet) photographed in Chicago by M. Mokeyev

🪶Couple of Downies climbing around. Photo M. Mokeyev

🪶The same Cape May as in yesterday's photo. Such a pretty one. Pic by M. Mokeyev.

🪶Cape May Warbler, photo by Mikhail Mokeyev.

🪶It's a Baltimore Oriole, probably female, but but but please note, that looks like HUMAN HAIR

🪶The same critter, fixing to go somewhere. Maybe to eat bugs. Photo M. Mokeyev.

🪶🪶Purple Martin, probably a first-Spring male, according to Paul Clyne. Pretty shiny, huh? Pic by Misha Mokeyev

🪶Shiny Grackle. Thanks to @psopheigh.bsky.social for setting me straight. Photo by Mikhail Mokeyev.

🪶A juvenile Coopers Hawk I saw fling itself and fling itself at foliage that may or may not have contained birds and small mammals, with no concept of how that might translate into a meal. Here meditating on the puzzling, hungry universe. Photo by M. Mokeyev.

🪶The rarest Red-breasted Nuthatch is a right-side-up one. Pic by M. Mokeyev

🪶Red-breasted Nuthatch, nuthatching. Photo by M Mokeyev.

🪶🪶Inappropriately-named Woodpecker 😉 (Red-bellied). Photo M. Mokeyev

🪶 Yellow-throated Warbler flaunting his best side. #birdbutt pic by M. Mokeyev

Black-capped Chickadee making sure we got the message 🪶 #birdbutt pic by M. Mokeyev

🪶🪶 Bird ID notes: Ruby-crowned Kinglet, busted, despite its “who-me-what-crown” expression, because cute. Photo by Mikhail Mokeyev

Brown Creepers rock. Especially when you see them. 🪶🪶Pic by M. Mokeyev

Ruby-crowned Kinglet taking perching lessons from chain-link fence. #birdbutt 🪶 photo by M. Mokeyev

Black-throated Blue Warbler🪶🪶 photo by M. Mokeyev

🪶These are BOTH male American Redstarts. The pale one is a juvenile, his black feathers just moving in. "Redstart" is, etymologically, a bird with a red tail; "start" here comes from Old English steort, "tail, rump." Pic by Mikhail Mokeyev.

🪶🪶Black-capped Chickadee photo M. Mokeyev

🪶🪶Coopers Hawk, juvenile, I think. Fearless. I got up right close and it just stared. But I also saw it badly screw up a few attempts at taking birds and squirrels. Pic by M. Mokeyev.

🪶🪶 Indigo Bunting by M. Mokeyev

Golden-crowned Kinglet making sure we know who. 🪶 Photo by Misha Mokeyev

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🪶🪶Black-Capped Chickadees are usually fluffy-clean, but here’s a scrappy one all sticky with resin and hell-bent on getting stickier, taking a second to give us the hairy eyeball 😂 photos by M. Mokeyev 1/3