A brown creeper climbing up a tree. A section of the tree showing bark is at the fight of the photo. The bird is a little more than halfway up that section of the tree. It has a white underbelly and brown wings with some white spots scattered. The beak is long, thin, and black, with a slight curve at the endo

Brown creeper. #BrownCreeper #CerthiaAmericana #Creeper #Bird #Songbird #Animal #Nature #Photography #LakeFarmCountyPark #Madison #Wisconsin

An Eastern kingbird on a small branch of false indigo. The background is blurred grass. The bird is facing left. It is mostly black or a dark grey with a white breast and a bit of white at the end of its long tail. It has a rounded head and a short black beak.

Eastern kingbird. #EasternKingbird #TyrannusTyrannus #Flycatcher #Kingbird #Birdf #Animal #FalseIndigo #Plant #Nature #Photography #LakeFarmCountyPark #Madison #Wisconsin

An Eastern garter snake coiled around in a bunch of dead leaves. The snake is facing left toward the bottom left of the photo. It curves around and up to the top of the photo and then curves around under itself and moves out of the photo toward the bottom right. The tail is out of the photo. The snake is mostly green but with several yellowish stripes all along its body and yellow under its head. It has a small black eye. At the top of the photo the markings of another snake can be seen, indicating that this is a nest of snakes.

Eastern garter snake. #EasternGarternSnake #ThamnophisSirtalisSirtalis #GarterSnake #Snake #Reptile #SnakeNest #Nest #Animal #Nature #Photography #LakeFarmCountyPark #Madison #Wisconsin

A common yellowthroat balanced atop of a plant. It is facing left, with its tail up in the air. The bird has a yellow breast. It has a black mask, black eyes, and black beak. It has a white collar and light brown wings and tail.

Common yellowthroat. #CommonYellowthroat #GeothlypisTrichas #Warbler #Songbird #Bird #Animal #Nature #Photography #LakeFarmCountyPark #Madison #Wisconsin

A juvenile sandhill crane walking across a grassy field. It is moving left to right. The crane is mostly a light brown with grey coming through in spots. It has a very short tail. Its long legs are a light color and the left one is bent as it walks. The neck curves up from the body and is lighter than the rest of its body. There is white around the crane's eye, a black spot between the eye and the long, tapered beak.

Juvenile sandhill crane. #SandhillCrane #AntigoneCanadensis #Crane #Juvenile #Bird #Animal #Nature #Photography #LakeFarmCountyPark #Madison #Wisconsin

A green-striped darner dragonfly clinging to the bottom of a green stem. The dragonfly is facing upwards. It is mostly a chocolate brown, but with several light green stripes on its thorax and green spots running all the way down its abdomen. The wings are spread out to the right over its body and are clear except for veining.

Green-striped darner. #Green-StripedDarner #AeshnaVerticalis #Dragonfly #Darner #Insect #Animal #Nature #Photography #LakeFarmCountyPark #Madison #Wisconsin

A red-tailed hawk taking off from snowy ground. The hawk is facing left and is in front of a fence and snow-covered ground. It has a brown head and mostly white body with spots of brown throughout. Its wing is straight up in the air and its legs are straight down, with its talons showing at the bottom. The tail is sticking out straight behind the bird.

Red-tailed hawk taking off. #Red-TailedHawk #ButeoJamaicensis #Hawk #Bird #Raptor #BirdOfPrey #Animal #Nature #Photography #LakeFarmCountyPark #Madison #Wisconsin

An eastern garter snake sticks its head out from behind some leaves. It is at the center of the photo, looking left, with leaves around it at the top, sides, and very bottom. The snake is dark on top and a light yellowish color on the bottom. Its eye is black in the middle, with a tiny yellow circle around it and a little larger brownish circle around that. The white stripe that runs along the top of its body is not visible in this photo.

Eastern garter snake. #EasternGarterSnake #ThamnophisSirtalisSirtalis #GarterSnake #Snake #Reptile #Animal #Nature #Photography #LakeFarmCountyPark #Madison #Wisconsin

A pair of blue-winged teal flying right to left just slightly above a pond. They have grey heads with black beaks and there is a vertical white stripe between the bill and the small black eye. The bodies are a mottled brown. Both of their wings are pointed down and are brown. They both have a light blue wing patch. On the bird on the left there is a green patch just under the light blue. It is not visible on the duck at the right. There is green and light brown vegetation at the pond's edge. The vegetation and the ducks are reflected in the pond.

Pair of blue-winged teal. #Blue-WingedTeal #SpatulaDiscors #Teal #Duck #DabblingDuck #Bird #Animal #Nature #Photography #LakeFarmCountyPark #Madison #Wisconsin

Barn swallow feeding a chick. At the lower bottom right of the photo is a barn swallow nest, a large cup made of mud with straw forming the bedding for the hatchlings. In it are a couple of featherless chicks. An adult swallow is perched on the left edge of the nest. It has a white breast with blue feathers on the back and head and rust-colored neck. One of the chicks is upright and the adult has its beak inserted into the chick's open mouth feeding it. There is a wooden beam and a cement wall behind the nest.

Barn swallow feeding its young. #BarnSwallow #HirundoRustica #Swallow #Bird #Chick #Feeding #Nest #Animal #Nature #Photography #LakeFarmCountyPark #Madison #Wisconsin

A pair of viceroy butterflies on a plant. The photo is taken from underneath looking up. The plant has a yellow flower on it and several beds. The butterflies are resting on top. They are orange with black stripes. They look almost like monarchs, but they have a large back stripe going across the hindwing, as well as the vertical stripes you would see on a monarch. The outer edges of the wings are black with white dots all along. Behind them is a blue sky with one large white cloud crossing the center of the photo.

Pair of viceroy butterflies. #Viceroy #LimenitisArchippus #Butterfly #Mimic #Insect #Animal #Nature #Photography #LakeFarmCountyPark #Madison #Wisconsin

A skunk crossing a field. It is crossing from the right to the left. It is mostly black but has a white stripe that runs from the top of its head almost to the middle of its back. It also has a very thin white stripe on the front of its head, running between the eyes down from the forehead to just above its nose. Its eye is black and the fur around it and on the side of its face looks more brown than black. The skunk's back is arched and its tail is very bushy. The tail looks about as large as its body. It has some white fur in it and the very end of it is white fur that sticks out from the rest of the tail down to the ground.

Striped skunk. #StripedSkunk #MephitisMephitis #Skunk #CommonSkunk #Mammal #Animal #Nature #Photography #LakeFarmCountyPark #Madison #Wisconsin

A red-tailed hawk standing on a small patch of grass between two piles of snow.

Red-tailed hawk in the snow. #RedTailedHawk #Raptor #Bird #Nature #Photgraphy #LakeFarmCountyPark #Madison #Wisconsin #Snow

A pale yellow butterfly resting on an aster that has dozens of purple petals and an orange center. The butterfly is at rest, so its wings are folded. The outer wing is a light yellow with pink around the outer edges and two white or silver spots surrounded by pink. The other wing looks white with a dark black border and a black spot near the upper edge.

Clouded sulphur. #CloudedSulphur #Butterfly #Insect #Aster #Nature #Photography #LakeFarmCountyPark #Madison #Wisconsin

A sandhill crane, a very tall bird with a red crown, standing in a grass field.

Sandhill crane. #SandhillCrane #Crane #Bird #Nature #Photography #LakeFarmCountyPark #Madison #Wisconsin