Two of many individuals on Conoclinium dissectum with many other species.
Love the orange on the legs
One of several individuals.
Trying to eat American Pokeweed berries, but that upper mandible is creating a challenge. Appears to be the same individual previously observed: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/179737841
One of several individuals.
One of two juveniles checking out the bird bath with a molting adult in the vicinity.
One of two juveniles with a molting adult in the vicinity. Sharing the bird bath with several other species including a Red-Bellied Woodpecker (visible in second photo) and a Blue Jay (visible in third photo).
One of several individuals; this one with a Red-Bellied Woodpecker (photo, right).
With several other species including a Blue Jay (visible in second photo) and a Northern Mockingbird (visible in third photo).
One of several individuals.
on prairie, unworked area, south side
Elizabeth and I will go have some Thanksgiving dinner with the parents later, so I stopped by Lake Como Park this afternoon. Despite the drug paraphernalia and gang graffiti, this is such a good park. Lots of nature here! :)
Rockwall - Pettinger Preserve Bioblitz
Observed in a fairly recently mowed area.