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 A nice map for birding around Champaign-Urbana is provided by CCAS

See other photos from October-November, 2010

 

A red-phase Screech Owl spend the day, Dec.9,2010 at the loading dock in MRL on the UI-Campus

Whooping Cranes Class of 2010, Milmine, Illinois, November 16, 2010

 

 

 

Whooping Cranes Class of 2009, Milmine, Illinois, November 30, 2009

 

Red-tailed Hawk, near Allerton park, Illinois, November 22, 2009

 

Roseate Spoonbill (Platalea ajaja), Blackpoint drive, MERRITT ISLAND NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE,  Florida

Showy egret

they usually hunt by stirring the mud with their yellow shoes, but here they have another way to hit directly from a low flight

 

Black-necked Stilt and Lesser Yellowlegs fight over territory, Curtis, Champaign, IL, August 8, 2009

 

Baby killdeer

 

Kingbird

Dove

Brown thrasher (Meadowbrook, July 9, 2009)

 

Deer (Meadowbrook, July 9, 2009)

Goldfinch, photo from the living room (July 3, 2009)

Tree swallow, Buffalo Trace, July 3, 2009

 

Dickcissel, Buffalo Trace, June 13, 2009

 

ŠIvan Petrov