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| Awwww! Look at that cute lil' Eastern Red Bat |
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| Stretching their wings |
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| Streeeeech |
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| Looking down |
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| A Tennessee Warbler peaking over some Honey Locust leaves to look at a silken Mimosa Webworm tent |
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| Looking up |
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| Tennessee Warbler feeding on Mimosa Webworms. The Mimosa Webworm is a non-native moth species that was introduced to North America in the 1940's. The species' caterpillars switched from their original Mimosa Tree host to the /honey Locust in North America. Then they quickly spread. The invasive moth mostly targets urban Honey Locusts, and have been causing massive damage to many trees in Chicago. However, the Honey Locust species as a whole is doing okay (not too great, though) in Chicago this year, and birds eat the Mimosa Webworms. |
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| Upside-down |
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| Rightside-up |
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| Upside-down again |
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| Blackpoll Warbler |
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| Flying up! |
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| About to jump! |
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| The Eastern Red Bat, later |
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| A Barred Owl I nicknamed "Willow". Willow stayed at McKinley Park for about a week and then left. We hope you found a nice park with lots of voles to eat, Willow! |
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| Fungus/Slime Mold*/Bacterial gall. The first two are by far the most likely. *(giant unicellular amoeba with a very complex life cycle) |
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