A suburban Chicago ecosystem
Male Rusty Blackbird
In breeding plumage
Location: Ruth Macintyre Conservation Area Shot Date: April 7, 2023, 10:16 a.m.
Rusty Blackbird
In the wet grassland/marsh
Location: Ruth Macintyre Conservation Area Shot Date: April 6, 2023, 9:53 a.m.
Rusty Blackbirds
Foraging in the mud puddles
Location: Ruth Macintyre Conservation Area Shot Date: April 6, 2023, 9:46 a.m.
At the conservation area
Location: Ruth Macintyre Conservation Area Shot Date: April 6, 2023, 9:43 a.m.
Location: Ruth Macintyre Conservation Area Shot Date: April 6, 2023, 9:42 a.m.
View from behind the bird
Location: Ruth Macintyre Conservation Area Shot Date: April 6, 2023, 9:37 a.m.
Location: Ruth Macintyre Conservation Area Shot Date: April 6, 2023, 9:36 a.m.
In the conservation area
Location: Ruth Macintyre Conservation Area Shot Date: April 6, 2023, 9:35 a.m.
Small flock foraging in the puddles after the storms that formed between the marshy grasses and the tree thicket that borders it. Red-winged Blackbirds and Common Grackles were mixed in.
Location: Ruth Macintyre Conservation Area Shot Date: April 6, 2023, 9:34 a.m.