Many thanks to tour guide Alan Anderson!
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| This Osprey flew right over us and then circled back around, so we could get even more pics. |
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| Mallards |
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| We were hoping that we might see some Northern Shovelers, and here they are! |
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| Common Mergansers |
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| Great Blue Herons, on the Pacific coast, often stand on floating kelp beds to catch fish in deeper waters. |
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| Red-winged Blackbird |
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| This Great Egret was too fast to get a focused picture of, but you can still see it's impressive size. |
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| One time, a parent Mourning Dove brought their two chicks into our yard for a rest, stayed for a couple days, and hung out in the area for a couple more days. |
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| Like some Cuckoos, Brown-headed Cowbirds don't make nests and instead lay their eggs in other bird's nests. This allows the female to lay up to three dozen eggs a year. |
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| Song Sparrows are generally very easy to identify, despite the large amount of subspecies. All the subspecies are quite streaky with a spot on their chest. |
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| Common Mergansers |
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| The Northern Cardinal is the most popular state bird in the U.S., with 7! |
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| American Tree Sparrows are very much ground birds, even nesting on the ground! |
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| The Ross's goose is in the center in front of the Canada Goose. |
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| Ring-necked ducks to the left, Lesser Scaups to the right and Canadas and Ross's goose on right at point. |
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| Ross's Geese are very rare to see in Cook county, Illinois and surrounding areas, especially this late in the season, so we were very lucky to see one. |
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| Lesser Scaup and Canada Geese and Ring-necked ducks lower right |
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| Common Grackles are generally easy to id in flight because of the way they curve their tails, which you can see well in this picture. |
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| Great Blue Heron trail their feet behind them in flight, so they are also pretty easy to id in flight. |
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| Bufflehead nest in old woodpecker holes, often ones made by Northern Flickers, in northern North America. |
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| Mallards |
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| Mourning doves eat seeds while on the ground, storing them in their crop, then fly away and perch to digest their meal. |
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| Sunrise at Busse Woods with Red-breasted mergansers in the water. |
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