9.19.26 North Pond, Lincoln Park, Chicago, IL (songbirds and pigeons)

 


Two cute Rock Pigeons

Close-up of the one further up

Portrait of the one further down

A pigeon from earlier that day

I don't know why, but there was a group of pigeons that really like to perching the branches that hung out in this one patch of pines next to the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum. You know, a feral animal that is a perfect example of urban adaptation and specialization that originated in the steep cliffs of Eurasia with little vegetation so is already at home in the big city came out of the skyscraper area to perch in a tree.

Hi, yeah. Must be some good seeds in those pine needles

Oh, you got something

Eastern Gray Squirrel: an Extreme Close-up
Not a bird, but still warm-blooded

Baby Northern Cardinal

Awwwww

Out of the goldenrod!

Cool mohawk

Swainson's Thrush

Cool bird

A Gray Catbird with an eye infection

Poor bird

Gray Catbird

Song Sparrow

From the side

Ultra Dramatic!!!!

American Crow

American Crow grooming

Rock Pigeons in a tree. So weird

Brown Thrasher bird

Houde Sparrows

Fake-horned Owl


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