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Pedestrian birder in Chicago. Click on #birds tag to see just my bird photos without the whinging. I'm also sharing bird links using the #BirdLinks tag. I'm embarrassed by my typos but usually not enough to delete them. Gear: OM1 & OM 150-400 & 100-400

Alligator attacks on humans are rare in Florida, according to the FWC, which compiles reports of encounters with the state's estimated 1.3 million gators. The agency in 2022 reported an average of about eight unprovoked alligator bites annually - and only 26 fatalities from those attacks since 1948.
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A distant tiny male Ruby-throated Hummingbird perched on leafless branches.
A shelf cloud over Chicago. View looking south from East Lakeview
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A comic image of the hulk lying face down in some grass. The speech bubbles say HULK WILL SLEEP NOW, AND MAYBE WHEN HULK WAKES UP-- -- EVERYTHING THAT HAS MADE HULK TIRED WILL BE CHANGED!
Last week, Ohio lawmakers also green-lit $1 million in emergency funding to assist in caring for the children. The Ohio Controlling Board authorized funds to cover associated expenses, including court proceedings and law enforcement overtime, as the children will be placed in foster care, according to WCMH.
Garmin connect IQ stuck on a loading screen....
Trucks parked all over the new pedestrian and bike paths in Lincoln Square.
A three inch long golf tee. Supposedly a higher ball results in longer drives
Gray morph Eastern Screech Owl way high up in a tree. Shot at 500mm on MFT lens and cropped.
A large Carp bottom feeding in the shallows of Belmont Harbor near the dog beach.
Tennessee Warbler squatting and preparing to liftoff from the branch it is perched on.
Taylor's investigation is primarily based on a forensic interview of the student, but his affidavit also includes information obtained by law enforcement that shows the messages were from Pritt based on location data for the account that placed the user at Pritt's residence, as well as the previous username for the account being "elliottpritt16"
Elon Musk @elonmusk X X.com Before this year ends, Grok Imagine will make a full-length movie of The Odyssey that is historically accurate and true to the art of Homer
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Northern Flickr flying away with a bright white patch visible on its lower back.
Sidewalk cafes working together to make sidewalk navigation more difficult than it should be. Two building adjacent patios and then an street side patio creating a pedestrian chokepoint. Approved by people who, no doubt, don't walk anywhere.
70s Toyota Corolla in Pluribus on Apple TV
A couple hundred people running, walking and cycling on the Lakefront Trail pedestrian and bike paths right beside The Theater on the Lake at Fullerton.
The restaurant at Theater on the Lake restaurant concession being exclusive about toilets despite being in a publicly funded and renovated park building which is almost never used for the public benifit.
Chicago skyline looking south from East Lakeview. Cloudy morning.
A Spotted Sandpiper in flight over the water of Belmont Harbor's northern "finger" banking with wings fully spread seen from the top.
that they have become their own notable source of greenhouse gases in recent years. A 2024 study published in Science found that carbon emissions from wildfires had increased by 60 percent in the prior two decades. Fires in boreal forests such as Canada's were the main reason. Another study, published in Nature, found that Canadian wildfires in 2023, when more than 43 million acres burned, generated more emissions than the burning of fossil fuels in all but the three most-polluting countries. - From The Atlantic "Canada’s Forests Will Burn and Burn"
Lakefront revetments in the foreground, Lake water in the midground and gray smoggy sky in the background. No evidence of the sun at all.
Weather Underground's Summary Infoviz for today (Friday). Preciptitaion 52% Thunderstorms possible after 11. Pollen High Grass Pollen Air Quality Hazardous Air Quality Score 377 UV Index Very High Daytime UV 9.
A view of the smoke covering the city of Chicago looking south from East Lakeview.
AQair quality map showing Very Unhealthy for almost all of Chicago
Neither appeared to have a lavish lifestyle. Flowers's crypto account had been used to pay for food deliveries, while US authorities were able to trace Jubair because he paid for food deliveries using gift cards bought with crypto from an account that allegedly stored ransomware payments. Experts point to evidence that Scattered Spider attacks are often driven more by a desire for bragging rights and notoriety than financial gain.
IQAir's air quality map for the Chicago area showing lots of air pollution from the fires.
A massive pile of tree debris at Jarvis Bird Sanctuary, Chicago next to the service road on the North Side. It is well over 10 feet high and runs along the street for at least a hundred feet.
https://firesmoke.ca/forecasts/current/ map for the Northern North America. Smoke at medium-low concentrations almost everywhere.
An old man in jeans, tshirt and suspenders (gray beard not visible but present) upside down in mid-air above a bison that has just flipped him like an unskilled rodeo clown. One arm stretched strait out to our right (his left) and the other arm bending into dab position.
Pink clouds over the city at dawn.
The underside of a Barn Swallow flying sideways over green foliage. Wings and tail spread.
A Blue-gray Gnatcatcher on a leafless branch shouting in the direction of a partially obscured Eastern Screech Owl.
Kyle from Southpark on a windowsill. Chicago in the background
Eastern Kingbird perched on a tree sapling's protective fencing.
A view towards the Loop from East Lakeview at night well past my bedtime.
6 airpod incels on a wood grained coffee table.
An austrialian truck train. A truck cab pulling three large trailers somewhere in what looks like outback.
A picture of my legs and feet on a sidewalk with torn Trader Joe's bag and Trader Joe's grocery items scattered at my feet.
I have a friend who works for the US government so has good research skills. I asked her to do a check on him using information she could find on public databases. I didn't want some serial killer coming to visit me. She said, "Not only does he have a completely clean record, he's boring. He doesn't even have a speeding ticket." That's how I like it. I'd been married before and I'd had enough drama in my life.
5 of 15 What is an untrue fact about Canada? Edmonton got more snow in January 2025 than Florida Canada has a maple syrup reserve Canada has one national sport: ice hockey X American soldiers are buried in Canada
The 1.75L "Dad Bod" whisky fanny pack from Fireball
The Chicago Park District selected the names through a “Name the Eaglets” competition, which received more than 3,000 submissions. The choices were narrowed down to Migizi, Marian and Clawumet — a play on the word Calumet, the Southeast Side region where the nest is located. Chicagoans then voted for their favorite among the three finalists.
A lamppost outside the East Lakeview Mariano's. The lower 10 feet or so have been repainted with a shiny black while the rest of the pole is a flat black.
Elev 610 ft, 41.93 °N, 87.65 °W Chicago, IL Weather Conditions 91° PARK WEST STATION | 8:16 AM CDT on July 1, 2026 (GMT -5) Updated 15 seconds ago 94° 75° 91°F LIKE 103° Today's temperature is forecast to be NEARLY THE SAME as yesterday.
Results from today's (7.1.2025) birdie.net game. 3 reds, one yellow before the correct result (green). One guess left.
▲ Active Warning: Extreme Heat Warning (See More) Elev 597 ft, 41.95 °N, 87.65 °W Chicago, IL Weather Conditions 96° WRIGLEYVILLE STATION | 3:36 PM CDT on June 30, 2026 (GMT -5) Updated 40 seconds ago --° 77° 96°F LIKE 119° Partly Cloudy N 18 Gusts 20 mph
A male Blue-gray Gnatcatcher feeding a fledgling Brown-headed Cowbird (nest parasite) on the wood chip path at Jarvis Bird Sanctuary in Chicago.
It's just one ballroom. What could it cost. 5 or 6 hundred million? based on the arrested development just one banana what could it cost meme feature Lucille Bluth.
Yahoo news headline with a picture of Mackenzie Scott. "Jeff Bezos' ex-wife Mackenzie Scott donated $26.3B in 5 years - yet she's richer now. Here's why the 'giving' is... Moneywise 7h ago"
A Purple Martin with a leaf in its beak that looks just like a nice fancy mustache.
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher struggling with a spider
Divvy station at Barry and Broadway in East Lakeview Chicago with all the bike racks covered to prevent their use.
A Loop 2 Experience Plus ear plug
A Spotted Sandpiper partially obscured in grass growing in the water.
A bag of the limited-edition HAVANNA x LEO Messi Mini Chocolate Alfajores, a collaboration released for the 2026 World Cup.