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| An adorable Spiny Softshell turtle |
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| Hide! |
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| "Is it safe now?" |
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| "Yup!" |
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| Leaving the safety of the boulder, and into adventure |
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| Crazy bathing Canada Goose! |
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| Hwupppah! |
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| *gaaasp!* |
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| Going back in! |
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| Spinning around... |
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| Dive! |
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| Goose butt! |
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| Gone! |
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| The Canada Goose resurfacing |
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| "You saw nothing" |
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| Moss |
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| Unidentified hover fly |
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| Flower-of-an-hour, an invasive species of Hibiscus native to the subtropics and tropics of Eurasia and Africa. |
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| Large Milkweed Bugs (there's a second one poking one antenna out) |
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| Canada Goose dipping its head in the water |
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| Water onto the back |
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| Flap! |
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| Fwooosh |
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| Onto the dock |
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| Canada Geese flying |
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| Canada Geese |
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| Aggressive Canada Geese |
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| Honk! |
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| Canada Geese |
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| Honk! |
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| Hissssssss |
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| A (barely) alive fish with an Oomycete infection. Oomycetes, or water molds, are a group of algae that incorporated some fungal DNA into their genomes. They are, like most fungi, pathogens and decomposers. However, while fungi have cell walls of chitin, oomycetes have cell walls of cellulose (like plants). |
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| Fish fry |
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| Great Blue Heron |
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| Hmmmm |
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| Great Blue Heron, the Chicago River, industry, a pylon, and a helicopter |
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| White-throated Sparrow in front of a mixed grass prairie |
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| Firewheel, a native flower. |
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