8.16.24 Illinois Beach State Park, Zion, IL

 


Question Mark

Front view

Four-spotted Velvet Ant
The females of this Species (which are wingless) are venomous (but not harmful to humans) and deliver Excruciatingly painful stings. They are actually wasps.

Common Buckeye

Green Darner Dragonfly migration

Landscape (note the dragonflies)

Whimbrel
This is a rare migrant in the family Scolopacidae. For better photos, see my sister's blog in the link area.

Whimbrel tracks

Creeping conifers on eroded sand


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