8.8.26 Palmisano Park, Chicago, IL (not insects)

The first three photos in this post are from my backyard. The rest are from Palmisano Park 


Spotted Orbweaver with prey

Prey detail

Nom-noms

Song Sparrow screaming at the sky while on a lamp post orb

Screeeeee!!!!!!!

"cough, cough. My throat is sore from all that screeing"

Red-winged Blackbird on a strangely deflated orb

Broadleaf Arrowhead flowers

Broadleaf Arrowhead, well, broad, arrowhead-shaped leaves

Prickly Lettuce (giant dandelion-like plant), Lady's Thumb smartweed (pink seed heads), Giant Bulrush (blue-green stems in foreground), and Broadleaf Arrowhead (green background)

Canada Goldenrod, an excellent pollinator plant and a late bloomer that helps bugs make it through early fall. It is also tolerant of human-disturbed landscapes. Unfortunately, it easily overpowers other native plants and is an invasive species in central and southeast Europe, south, southeast, and east Asia, and Oceania.

Some sort of grass

Silk strucuture on a bluestem?

Slippery Elm growing out of a boulder

Landscape

That green stuff is Common Duckweed, a flowering plant consisting of a single, very small floating leaf that occasionally flowers. They look a lot like algae or cyanobacteria blooms

Desiccated algae. After a heavy rain, the dock at the Palmisano Park lagoon got flooded, so they turned off the water feature for a few days. Once it was un-flooded, the algae became green again

Beautiful

Chinese Pennisetum

Some silk structure (egg sac or pupa, probably) on a folding chair. What an amazing place to grow up. On a folding chair made of aluminum and plastic


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