Taps the sign.

A mostly white (leucistic, I think) pigeon mid-strut on a concrete sidewalk.

A pigeon! These guys honestly go unnoticed by me mostly, they're quiet and often perched high above. This one strutted right in front of me though.

Sean Rodriguez

Love to see it! Hitting the cover off the ball, signed a six-figure contract, got engaged...lots so smile about. And it's a great smile 😁

Nico Hoerner, I love you.

Robins know when you are trying to take a picture of them, and reliably refuse to cooperate.

A typewritten note that reads "42" with colored pencil tracing and styling to make it resemble the dodgers logo

A list of services offered, including UNEMPOLYMENT.

When you need to update your ethical non-monogamy situation.

We are at the end of #WillTrent season three and All The Plot is happening.

At least he did well!

I appreciate the sun, but I really don't need "80 and humid" on April 14th.

A house sparrow with a mean-looking eye looking right at the camera , perched on some reddish woody branches with green leaves and blue sky behind.

Lots of commotion in the park today. The best parts are still closed for construction, which is supremely frustrating. Today's bird is this very serious house sparrow, who was keeping watch while the others did their chattering from the hedge.

DON'T LET CUBS BREAK CURSE

An American White Pelican, seen lazily floating down the river. Its long orange bill with a lump is the craziest thing. You can't really see it's black-tipped wings but they're also wild!

McHenry Dam today was very exciting! Egrets and osprey and a pied-billed grebe and bald eagles, but most notably about a hundred White Pelicans. My faves were like this one, lazily floating down the river.

Yeah, now I definitely want a donut. buttondown.com/monteiro/arc...

An Eastern Phoebe sits among reedy plants in a pebble-sand area.

Man my binos are really coming in handy. ID'd BLUE WINGED TEALS at the beach, plus mergansers and our first tern of the season. Then I got this Eastern Phoebe, another lifer.

Zoomed in photo of a gull on a giant shiny convex surface, with a building behind. The surface is top of Chicago's Cloudgate sculpture.

Cloudgate, aka the Bean, surrounded by people on a spring day. Top center you can see the gull, if you look closely.

Today on the walk home the cardinals were really going at it. Sounded like a laser show up in the trees with their "pew pew pew" calls. Photo of the day is this gull on top of the bird! Second photo for scale.

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back

Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

Two mallards, a male followed by a female, on a paved path through trees. The male's head is a gorgeous green in the sun.

garbage day. my wife took this photo. she is an excellent photographer.

I know you're right but...ugh.

Do we think all the America250 ads die down after July or do we still have almost 9 months of this?

A warbler, yellow-rump not especially visible, in the thick of a white-branched tree. Blue sky behind.

Then to the sanctuary where we id'd over a dozen species. Highlights were a cowbird (heard but not seen for like 5 min), new lifer ruby-crowned kinglet we chased through the trees to identify, a golden-crowned, a sapsucker (again! Now N has too) and this, a yellow-rumpled warbler, my Merlin BOTD.

A horned grebe in the water, its dark feet and orangey tufts visible.

Took a couple days off but really made up for it today! First, to the lake, where we saw Red-headed mergansers diving like goofballs, and a bunch of horned grebes (lifer for us both!) also cormorants, geese, mallards, gulls, etc.

nasa employee: oh hey u guys are back early

astronaut: Office365 in spaceship

nasa employee: what?

astronaut: *loading a pistol and getting back on the rocket-ship* Office365 in spaceship

A female cardinal in a multilayer evergreen hedge. She is tilted over displaying her tail feathers, red beak and crown

This cardinal was getting her flirt on today!

A lot of this has me seething with rage, especially because much of it recounts activities here in Chicago, but the first thing that caught my eye - they rappelled into that south shore apartment building with a dog?!

A Common Grackle in an urban tree. They are mid-squawk. The tree has a few buds.

Extremely short dip into the park today, where it was Grackle Central. Saw at least a dozen. I love their big eyes. This one was yelling, probably about the cold.

Certainly more adorable than this score.