5.13.23 Oak Woods Cemetery, Chicago, IL

 Birds are often thought of as connections to life, fertility, calamity and death. It is easy to see this watching them in a cemetery.

--written by Ima and her family


Eastern Kingbirds are known to knock Blue Jays off branches!

Eastern Kingbirds are likely not at a birdbath for water; they get most of their hydration from the insects and fruit they eat, and are probably there for the insects that are laying eggs in the water.

Despite being game birds, Mourning Doves are still one of the Americas's most abundant birds, with their population being at about 350 million.

Eastern Bluebird

Eastern Bluebird


Eastern Bluebird and Chipping Sparrow

Chipping Sparrow, Eastern Bluebird, American Robin

Two Palm Warblers

Caspian Tern

Some of the things birders have said Rose-breasted Grosbeaks sound like drunk or unusually happy American Robins.

Green Heron

Wood ducks

Red-tailed Hawk

Red-tailed Hawk

Red-tailed Hawk

Red-tailed Hawk getting into it with a Caspian Tern

Red-winged Blackbird attacking the Red-tailed Hawk on the red tail

Four Canada Geese

Cooper's Hawk

Cooper's Hawk and an American Robin


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