Putting together some images of the 8 bumblebee species I documented on CFC property in 2025 for next week's annual meeting. Character limit won't let me list them all.
No. 5. is the Rusty-patched BB (federally endangered)
#bumblebee #bumblebees #beemonitor #citizensforconservation
What’s the plan for the Heritage sites? The once Royal jail on Frederick Street…Carrera Prison Island once called, during the Spanish Colonial era, la Isla Carrera
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Closed Bottle Gentian flower, my favorite prairie forb. It never opens, and bumblebees are the only pollinator strong enough to muscle their way inside. This is a Golden Northern Bumblebee pollinating the hard way.
Lake County, IL 9.6.25
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Not all butterflies are stunning beauties. This Common Buckeye has seen some stuff.
Lake County, IL 8.15.25
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While most of this year's chicks have already fledged, the eastern Bluebirds are all in for round two. Of the 19 bluebird nestboxes I monitor, 4 had activity today. I just hope they don't get hard boiled in next week's heat dome.
#easternbluebird #bluebirdmonitor #birding #citizensforconservation
There were 50 or so Tree Swallows swooping over the Citizens for Conservation Farmhouse pond this afternoon, scooping up insects from the surface.
#treeswallow #birding #birdingphotography #birdphotography #citizensforconservation
When a mommy duck and a daddy duck love each other very much.....
Ring-necked Ducks at Flint Creek Savanna
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Another day, another prescribed burn. It's hard to take photos when you're working to hold the line.
#PrescribedBurn #prairiefire #citizensforconservation
I don't generally do landscape photography, but during a prescribed burn the images compose themselves.
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Sandhill Crane hunting worms among the Shooting Stars. Northern Illinois, May
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