2.28.25 Burnham Nature Corridor, Chicago, IL

 On this day we walked between 31st Street and 39th Street beaches. We saw the impact of avian flu on our local wildlife. We counted over 20 dead Red-breasted Mergansers and 4 dead gulls. We reported it immediately to the locally listed point person.


Red-breasted Mergansers

Red-breasted Mergansers

Red-breasted Merganser

Common Goldeneye and Red-breasted Mergansers

Ice formation

Ice formation

Redheads

Red-breasted Merganser

Common Goldeneye

Scaups and a Common Goldeneye

Common Mergansers

American Coot

Common Mergansers

Common Mergansers

Redheads, a Scaup, and an American Coot

Redheads

Redheads, a Scaup, an American Coot, and two Common Goldeneyes

Red-breasted Merganser

Red-breasted Mergansers

Red-breasted Merganser

Ring-billed Gulls

A Cooper's Hawk that was being chased by a gull over the lake


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