Found information source for identifying birds at Willow Lake

I found the Willow Lake Preserve page on Instagram and it has a lot of good bird photos:

Sharp-shinned Hawk

Lincoln’s Sparrow

cormorants

chickadees

Hairy Woodpecker

Common Yellowthroat

Prairie Warbler

Ruby-crowned kinglet

Common grackle

Great blue heron

Tree swallow

Osprey

Other wildlife:

Garter Snake

Muskrat video

Eastern Mud Turtle

Plants

Japanese honeysuckle

Plus great old pictures of when there were ball fields there.

The Life of Birds

David Attenborough is awesome. The Life Of Birds, is an awesome show. In episode 6 he shows how a bunch of birds dive bomb and poop on a raven to chase it away and get it off the idea of eating their young chicks.

I fell in love with birding when I was in Ecuador. I went to a cloud forest bird refuge, and saw the most amazing birds in the world, and met a lot of interesting birders.

Back in Jamaica Estates, the most exciting thing I would see is a cardinal. In Chicago, I just saw LGBs, little grey birds.

Hiking in nature, you might see a bird. Just another amazing slice of the rich world in nature. I was showing my son the drawing of Audubon the other day. I'm trying to educate him about the world of art, because of his own creative aspirations.