8.14.25 McCormick Place Bird Sanctuary, Chicago, IL

 

Cooper's Hawk

Cooper's Hawk

Cooper's Hawk

Cooper's Hawk

Cooper's Hawk

Cooper's Hawk

Cooper's Hawk being swooped at by an Eastern Kingbird

Cooper's Hawk, Barn Swallow, and Eastern Kingbird

Cooper's Hawk

Cooper's Hawk

Cooper's Hawk and Barn Swallow

Cooper's Hawk

European Starlings

Brown-headed Cowbird

Red-winged Blackbirds

Red-winged Blackbirds

Red-winged Blackbirds. One of them landed on top of another in an attempt to take the perch.

Gray Catbird

American Goldfinch

American Goldfinch

Baltimore Oriole

Warbling Vireo

Hackberry Emperor

Red-spotted Admiral

Obedient Plant (aka Obedience, False Dragonhead, and Physostegia virginiana) It is called "obedient" because if you push a flower to the side, it will usually stay like that.

Plane practicing for the air and water show. The planes flew over McCormick multiple times.